(74 quotes found)
“The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.”
Chamfort
“All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little I still know, I've guessed.”
“It is easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate”
“A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.”
“Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life”
“Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners”
“Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.”
“There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are well-dressed fools”
“Change in fashion is the tax which the industry of the poor levies on the vanity of the rich”
“I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.”
