Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

A feeble body weakens the mind.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Jean Grey Girls flirt with the dangerous guy, they don't bring him home... they marry the good guy.

The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.

A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.

Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.

Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.

The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Cheka.

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries in itself the causes of its destruction.

Jacquin's Postulate on Democratic Government: No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Happiness a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself, their buttocks arrogant in tight jeans, openly inviting, breasts falling free and shameless and feeling no apparent obligation to smile, look pleasant or keep their voices low. And how they live! Just look at them to know how! If a man doesn't bring them to orgasm, they look for another who does. If by mistake they fall pregnant, they abort by vacuum aspiration. If they don't like the food, they push the plate away. If the job doesn't suit them, they hand in their notice. They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be; they are what I worked for them to be: and now I see them, I hate them.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable, scintillating electric batteries have been the favorite animal of a Mohammed, Cardinal Richlieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it''

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.

Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.

In the end we beat them with Levi 501 jeans. Seventy-two years of Communist indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a three-ounce Sony Walkman. A huge totalitarian system has been brought to its knees because nobody wants to wear Bulgarian shoes. Now they're lunch, and we're number one on the planet.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity -- all I hope for in my clothes.

The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.

Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

This poem will never reach its destination. [On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity]

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.