Blaise Pascal Quotes

Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter.

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• The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • More
  • Busy
  • Leisure

• The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.

  

  Irwin Edman
  • Quality
  • Civilization
  • Test

• Piglet opened the letter box and climbed in. Then, having untied himself, he began to squeeze into the slit, through which in the old days when front doors were front doors, many an unexpected letter than WOL had written to himself, had come slipping.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Doors
  • Letters
  • Piglet

• One of the sweetest things in life: a letter from a friend.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Life
  • Friend
  • Letters

• I'd like to be rich enough so I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Enough
  • Rich
  • Letters

• Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.

  

  Alice B. Toklas
  • Time
  • Letters
  • Readers

• Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Up
  • God
  • Words

• We cling to the letter because the spirit is so much harder to master.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • Spirit
  • Masters
  • Letters

• Do not allow your daughters to be taught letters by a man, though he be a St. Paul or St. Francis of Assissium. The saints are in Heaven.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Heaven
  • Letters
  • Daughters

• A handful of letters doesn't always make a word, love.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • Letters
  • Handful
  • Words Love

• What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.

  

  Chilon of Sparta
  • Secret
  • Injury
  • Leisure

• [A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • May
  • Reading
  • Letters

• A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Angry
  • Rejection
  • Nasty

• If I had the power to influence Indian journals, I would have the following headlines printed in bold letters on the first page: Milk for the infants , Food for the adults and Education for all

  

  Lala Lajpat Rai
  • Power
  • Education
  • Food

• A letter is paradoxically the most revealing and the most deceptive of confessional revelations. We all have our inconsistencies, prejudices, irrationalities which, although strongly felt at the time, may be transitory. A letter captures the mood of the moment. The transitory becomes immutably fixed, part of the evidence for the prosecution or the defence.

  

  P. D. James
  • Time
  • May
  • Mood

• Letters are things, not pictures of things.

  

  Eric Gill
  • Things
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• There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.

  

  Eric Gill
  • Different
  • Letters
  • Varieties

• I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Hate
  • Reading
  • Persons

• Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Write
  • Lead
  • Letters

• When you cannot answer a skeptic, be content to wait for more light; but never forsake a great principle.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Great
  • Light
  • Waiting

• If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this may generate a young one from itself. No instance of this worthy of any credit has been observed up to the present at any rate, but one case in the class of fishes makes us hesitate. No male of the so-called erythrinus has ever yet been seen, but females, and specimens full of roe, have been seen. Of this, however, we have as yet no proof worthy of credit.

  

  Aristotle
  • Animal
  • Credit
  • Worthy

• Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter.

  

  Blaise Pascal
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