Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes

A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas

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• Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • People
  • Up
  • Fun

• Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Limit

• What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Family
  • Love
  • Mother

• See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • See
  • Surprise
  • Awards

• I've spent my life visiting a handful of people who are very close to me when they've been committed to one hospital or another in New York.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.

  

  Harold Edward Holt
  • Unique
  • Trees
  • Gum

• Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Wife
  • Husband
  • Sister

• You all know, even better than I do, that children, e.g. from Denmark, can get on their bicycles and cycle off to the Adriatic. No one would ever think of suggesting that they were 'teenage spies'. But Soviet children are not allowed to do this!

  

  Andrei Sakharov
  • Children

• El hombre, cuando es solamente lo que parece ser el hombre, casi no es nada.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• It is sad when people can't connect, and the sense of desperation that you feel when there is nothing to look forward to.

  

  David Frankel
  • People
  • Sad

• House, rap, R&B, disco rock, they are all part of hip-hop culture. Why you ain't playing Kraftwerk along with Jay-Z? That's hip-hop.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • Why
  • House
  • Culture

• It's part of the human character to want to know what's over the next hill, to want to know what's beyond.

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • Character

• I'm not surprised about the lack of women on boardrooms. They were only emancipated 200 years ago, and historically, men have dominated. I welcome women as long as they qualify for the job.

  

  David Tang
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Die

• I did 'Tumbleweeds' for fun. I did it because I loved it and I hardly even got paid.

  

  Janet McTeer
  • Fun

• I can handle the craziness some of the time, maybe most of the time. But I know I can't handle it all of the time.

  

  Chris Evans
  • Time

• Nobody I ever broke bread with - and I see players all the time - talked about using their head running the football. I've seen Barry Sanders and Eric Dickerson and Marcus Allen and Franco Harris, and we've all been together - we were all together at the Super Bowl - and no one talked about using their head.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Time
  • Together
  • Running

• I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Up
  • Remember
  • House

• Jo, his wife, remarked on Hopper's painting 'Cape Cod morning', 1950: 'It is a woman looking out to see if the weather is good enough to hang out her wash'. Then Edward Hopper reacted: 'did I say that? You're making it Norman Rockwell. From my point of view she's just looking out the window, just looking out the window'.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Good
  • She
  • Wife

• No matter where you are in life . . . you always have a choice and the choice can be power.

  

  Blaine Pardoe
  • Power
  • Choice
  • No Matter

• It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds.

  

  Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Risk

• 'The West Wing' was really important for me for a lot of reasons. It was the first thing I did when I got out to Los Angeles. I'd just finished school, and I was so naive.

  

  Claire Coffee
  • Important
  • School

• A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Morning
  • Should
  • Meetings