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| Anatole France
A baby is something you carry inside of you for 9 months, In your arms for
three years, And in your heart till the day you die.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His name.Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one. Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life. If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. If fifty million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.In art as in love, instinct is enough. Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. Intelligent women always marry fools.Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong.It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot. It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly. It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.It is in the ability to deceive oneself that one shows the greatest talent.It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit. It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be. It was in the barbarous, gothic times when words had a meaning; in those days, writers expressed thoughts. It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable. It was one of the liest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness. Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another.Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are books that other folks have leant me.Nine-tenths of education is encouragement. No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal. One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear. People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking
advantage of them.Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin. Skeptics laugh in order not to weep.Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues. That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. The absurdity of a religious practice may be clearly demonstrated without lessening the numbers of people who indulge in it. The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads. The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them. The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool. The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces. The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity. The impotence of God is infinite.The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. The pseudonym for God when He did not want to sign.The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant. To accomplish great things, we must not onlly act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe. To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price on conjectures.To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.We have medicines to make women speak; we have none to make them keep silence. We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best. What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation. What is traveling? Changing your place? By no means! Traveling is changing your opinions and your prejudices.When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. You got to dance with them what brung you.[The poor] have to labor under the majestic equality of the Law, which
forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, beg in the
streets, and steal bread. |
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