Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas

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• There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Past
  • Temptation
  • Ornament

• Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Good
  • Pain
  • Hurt

• It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.

  

  Olivia Hussey
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.

  

  Larry David
  • American
  • Food
  • Lunch

• Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Good
  • High
  • Used

• Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Happy
  • Growing
  • Be Happy

• When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.

  

  Lance Loud
  • World
  • Family
  • Friends

• I'm a typical California boy.

  

  Gary Lockwood
  • Boy
  • California
  • Typical

• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Space
  • Friend
  • Moon

• I was on paper earning more money and having more success than I'd ever had. And it was also the most miserable I've ever been. When those things collided, I realised something was off. That's when I started poking around to figure out what was wrong.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Money
  • Success
  • Miserable

• By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Country
  • Better
  • Broken

• Every commodity is compelled to chose some other commodity for its equivalent.

  

  Karl Marx

• In Stage I, divorces were not allowed, so men's sexual affairs did not put women's economic security in jeopardy; in Stage II, affairs could lead to divorce, so men's affairs did place women's economic security in jeopardy. We did not want political leaders who would be role models for behavior that would put women's economic security in jeopardy.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Political

• When you go to bed, don't leave bread or milk on the table: it attracts the dead.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke

• We begin by stating that religion is unbelief. It is a concern, indeed, we must say that it is the one great concern, of godless man...

  

  Karl Barth
  • Great

• Diplomacy, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Country
  • Art
  • Patriotic

• The first time we meet another person an insidious little voice in our head says, 'I might wear eyeglasses or be chunky around the hips or a girl, but at least I'm not Gay or Black or a Jew.' Meaning: I may be me - but at least I have the good sense not to be YOU.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • Time
  • Good
  • May

• An oak is no respecter of persons.

  

  Aldo Leopold

• Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within,, which is the spring of joy, peace and courage.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Men
  • Education
  • Peace

• I've said consistently that I always reserve the right, in conjunction with a broader international effort, to prevent genocide or any wholesale slaughter than might happen inside of Iraq or anyplace else.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Effort
  • Might
  • Iraq

• I firmly believe that life is an 'and' proposition and not an 'or' one. If you really love something, you just have to try it. The worse that can happen is that you'll be told 'no.'

  

  Bryan Batt
  • Life
  • Believe

• I love 'Watch the Throne,' because Kanye was acting so ratchet.

  

  Keith Stanfield

• It was great for me to go through all of my crazy Ferraris in my twenties. I think it was an inoculation against any kind of a midlife crisis.

  

  John Carmack
  • Great
  • Crazy

• The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Laughter