(10 quotes found)
“There are three things I have always loved, and never understood - painting, music, women”
Fontenelle
“It is the passions that do and undo everything.”
Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle
“There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.”
“Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.”
“If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.”
“A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.”
“A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.”
“To be happy one must have a good stomach and a bad heart”
“If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.”
“You just want to do something. You just want to stand up in a courtroom, even if it's this room, whatever this room used to be, ... As a public defender, you're in court every day, going to trial every day. You miss that.”
