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Paul Valery quotes, quotations, sayings

Paul's Law: You can't fall off the floor.
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Donnie Brasco Forget about it is like if you agree with someone, you know, like Raquel Welsh is one great piece of ass, forget about it. But then, if you disagree, like A Lincoln is better than a Cadillac Forget about it you know But then, it's also like if something's the greatest thing in the world, like mingia peppers, forget about it. But it's also like saying Go to hell too. Like, you know, like Hey Paulie, you got a one inch pecker and Paulie says Forget about it Sometimes it just means forget about it
Donnie Brasco
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Science is a collection of successful recipes.
Paul Valery
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Paul: Hey Benji! Wake up! Benji: I'm naked. Paul: Okay. Want some hamburgers?
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Paul's Law: In America, it's not how much an item costs, it's how much you save.
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What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls 'grace' from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call 'rigtheousness.'
Victor Hugo
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Karen: "I'm f**king poor!" Paul: "Well, it's better to be f**king poor than not to be f**king at all.
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The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.
Horace Walpole
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Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man --his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life. What would have happened if Paul had allowed himself to be talked out of his journey to Damascus?
Carl Jung
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I knew the youthfulness of the sixties: Talitha and Paul Getty lying on a starlit terrace in Marrakesh, beautiful and damned, and a whole generation assembled as if for eternity where the curtain of the past seemed to lift before an extraordinary future.
Yves Saint-Laurent
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Paul Revere was a tattle-tale
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The first time Paul B. got drunk, and he was regretting it: Paul to Greg: "Beat me up!" Greg: "Pick you up?" Paul: "No, BEAT me up! Pass me out!
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Jeremy: "But giraffes aren't belligerent!" Paul: "Yeah, but if you rubber-banded them to something they might be!
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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
Paul Valery
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People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.
Erma Bombeck
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Can you do me a favor? Say happy anniversary to my wife, Valerie? Our anniversary is Sept. 11, believe it or not. Our first anniversary, and I'm down here.
Pat Kelly
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A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
Paul Valery
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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]
Bible
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Paul Revere was a tattle-tale.
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Ordering dinner at Denny's: Jen: "Can I get a French Dip?" Paul B: "Bon jour! Uh Hyuh!
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A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen.
Paul Valery
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In a dorm at UW, beer and rum bottles everywhere.... A knock at the door. Greg whispers, "It's the cops!" Paul B. shouts at the door, "Nobody here but us chipmunks!
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Yes, Paul, we'll use hurricanes to transfer our data.
Matt
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For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. [St. Paul In Philippians 4:11]
Bible
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Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. [Acts 26:24]
Bible
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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. nothing in the paper today , we sigh.
Paul Valery
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Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
Paul Valery
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The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Paul Valery
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Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.
A. W. Tozer
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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery
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Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
Paul Valery
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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.
Albert Camus
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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
Paul Valery
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Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.
Paul Valery
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Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.
Paul Valery
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It was absolutely marvelous working for Wolfgang Pauli. You could ask him anything. There was no worry that he would think a particular question was stupid, since he thought all questions were stupid.
Victor Weisskopf
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A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
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A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
Paul Valery
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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.
Paul Valery
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? Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors -- somewhat disreputable but endlessly fascinating -- none of us can name two French generals or department store owners of that period. I take enormous pride in considering myself an artist, one of the necessaries.
James A. Michener
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
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God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
Paul Valery
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An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it.
Paul Valery
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The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
Paul Valery
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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Paul Valery
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Well, Mr. Secretary, I lived in a house without electricity too. No running water, no telephone...I can stand toe-to-toe with you. in response to Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill
Robert C. Byrd
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
Paul Valery
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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Paul Valery
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Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Paul Valery
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