Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes

Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.

Petrarch

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• I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Life
  • Kind
  • See

• Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Like
  • Period
  • Christmas

• When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • She
  • Night
  • Better

• Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new...program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.

  

  Art Buchwald
  • Time
  • Wonder

• When I was mayor of Tulsa, Tulsa County was in nonattainment of the 1979 ozone NAAQS, so I have seen firsthand the economic impacts associated with the challenges of attainment and the legacy of EPA intervention that continues long after meeting the standard.

  

  Jim Inhofe
  • Long
  • Legacy

• It's easy to look at where your pieces are now and place the next one nearby.

  

  Masayoshi Son

• I read a lot, very passionately, from the time I was very young, but it was a constant battle; my mother would more or less let me be, but with my father, I was always searching for a place where he wouldn't find me. Whenever he saw me reading, he would tell me to put the book down and go outside, act like a normal person.

  

  Andrea Barrett
  • Time
  • Book
  • Mother

• Hitler was good in the beginning, but he went too far.

  

  Marge Schott
  • Good
  • Beginning

• Moms Mabley blazed a path for female stand-ups in a housecoat and floppy hat. Phyllis Diller worked equally hard to make herself unattractive to men and non-threatening to women.

  

  Nell Scovell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Path

• The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.

  

  Jeff Miller
  • Country
  • America
  • Sacrifice

• I've kind of done everything late.

  

  Jamey Sheridan
  • Done

• ..a revolt against an established order in painting, a revolt against an established order in society, a same spirit of provocation..

  

  Maurice de Vlaminck
  • Society
  • Painting

• When I think about my ideal free day, it usually involves going into London and sitting in a nice coffeehouse with cake and coffee, but I would probably still have my notebook in my pocket.

  

  Jonathan Stroud
  • Free
  • Nice
  • Coffee

• The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • People
  • Nature

• I hate to admit this but I don't even know how to make a cup of tea or coffee. I can boil a kettle for a pot noodle and I've been known to warm up some food in the microwave.

  

  Michael Owen
  • Coffee
  • Known
  • Microwaves

• If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible.

  

  Aristotle
  • Possible
  • Exist
  • Contrary

• This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • God
  • Death
  • Support

• Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.

  

  Petrarch
  • Sentiments
  • Contrary
  • Inclination