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

• An interesting way into the celebrity interview podcast is via their dogs. Celebs may not be keen to let us into their homes, because they don't like us to see how wealthy they are. However, tell them you want to go for a walk on Hampstead Heath with them and their mutt, and they're only too happy.

  

  David Hepworth
  • May
  • Happy
  • Interesting

• Hardships drive some people apart. Others, like us, grow even closer.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • People
  • Apart
  • Closer

• The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

  

  Edward Young
  • House
  • Laughter

• You're walking by the tomb of Battiades, Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy Laughter at the right moment, over the wine.

  

  Callimachus
  • Poetry
  • Enjoy
  • Laughter

• I laugh until I weep And weep until I smile

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Smile
  • Laughter

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

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Laughter