Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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• If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Political

• The mind is the effect, not the cause.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Mind
  • Cause
  • Effect

• Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Home
  • Think

• When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • World
  • Find
  • New

• The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • People
  • Good
  • Design

• I want to stop piling people into prisons and stop branding people with a felony for a personal weakness.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • People
  • Want
  • Stop

• Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • She
  • Mother
  • Responsibility

• Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Up
  • Good
  • Dark

• I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Like
  • Catholic
  • Point

• If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Difference
  • Unknown
  • Fame

• Perhaps it is the positive knowledge that humans now possess the means to destroy their whole planet, the fear that they have in this way themselves become the gods, dreadfully charged with their own continued existence, that has made comic-book and movie myth escapist.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Fear

• I need you, and with your love I'm free And truly, you know you're alright with me.

  

  Lionel Richie
  • Free

• In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Work
  • Thoughts

• The Internet was invented in America but has found its largest number of users in China.

  

  Li Yuanchao
  • America

• Any woman who has attempted to slip a credit card into an inch-deep trouser pocket knows about the annoying puzzle of women's clothing: Pockets rarely work.

  

  Christina Binkley
  • Work
  • Women
  • Deep

• I can be presidential, but if I was presidential I would only have - about 20% of you would be here because it would be boring as hell.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Presidential

• De la musique avant toute chose,Et pour cela préfère l'ImpairPlus vague et plus soluble dans l'airSans rien en lui qui pèse ou qui pose.Il faut aussi que tu n'ailles pointChoisir tes mots sans quelque méprise:Rien de plus cher que la chanson griseOù l'Indécis au Précis se joint.

  

  Paul Verlaine

• I was reluctant to be critical of the United States because I thought the United States could do no wrong; that the government could not lie to its people.

  

  Eric Kandel
  • People

• I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Believe
  • Religion
  • Christ

• Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • World
  • Vision

• This gentleman has taken on the very fashionable theme of fighting corruption and I say again: In order to fight corruption you have to be crystal clear yourself. But there are problems here, and in this regard I unfortunately have a suspicion that this is just a way of getting votes and not a genuine desire to solve the problem.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Taken
  • Fighting
  • Gay

• No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Savage
  • Beast
  • Rage

• If I do manage to come up with a scheme [to naming], however, I stick to it, which is why my cats are named after gods-Loki and Athena, who are, respectively, absolutely straightforward and affectionate, and dumber than dirt. I learned my lesson. I will name my next cat 'Satan' or 'Marduk' or something, thereby ensuring a kind, gentle beast who treats my upholstery like a shrine.

  

  Ursula Vernon
  • Kind
  • Cat
  • Beast

• A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.

  

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • Gentleman
  • Beast
  • Lunatic