A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
Jean De La Bruyere
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No one can keep a secret better than a child.
VICTOR HUGO No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA To know wisdom is to be all knowledgeable ,to use that knowledge for the greater good is to no that ...
GARY F EVANS... Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
AMY BLOOM To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
GOLDA MEIR It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.
DEMOCRITUS It's a sheer and an utter nonsense to even think or imagine that a person can gain and retain people...
ANUJ SOMANY A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keepi...
EZRA TAFT BENSON We hope a better way will lead us to more happiness, while we would be more successful if we, first,...
LAURA TERESA MARQUEZ The world could be a lot better if people correct their own mistakes rather than criticizing others�...
VIKRANT PARSAI A woman can keep one secret - the secret of her age
VOLTAIRE Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
AESOP Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
AESOP The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself.
MARCEL PAGNOL There is no one a wildish woman loves better than a mate who can be her equal.
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS Better own a trifle than want a great deal.
IRISH PROVERB A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel--she
should marry.
[Sp., Una muger no tien...
PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
SACHA GUITRY When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE Woman understand children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.
SIMONIDES He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect better th...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
OSCAR WILDE To remain virtuous a man has only to combat his own desires; a woman must resist her own inclination...
DE LATENA He that begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or churc...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expos...
CRISS JAMI Nothing represents a man better than his ideas.
ERALDO BANOVAC A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.
ANNA QUINDLEN Melinda is a very detail oriented person. She comes up with her own system of doing things - she can...
LARRY HELLMAN Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
MARCUS ANTONIUS Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
MARCUS AURELIUS And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if sh...
JOHN STEINBECK There is no secret formula; they just do things better than everyone else, ... They have scouted and...
DEAN TAYLOR The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than ...
ANONYMOUS The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than ...
JUSTINE VOGT Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you ar...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER And a nameless longing filled her breast, - A wish, that she hardly dared to own, For something bett...
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER My brother doesn't know how to think of anything other than his own responsibilities."
"Perhaps...
CATHY MAXWELL A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it.
ERLAND JOSEPHSON The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doi...
WILFRED A. PETERSON Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS A woman looks beautiful. A man needs only to look a little bit better than the devil.
KEGGAH CORNER Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from f...
ALEXANDER WILSON Think for thyself one good idea, But known to be thine own; Is better than a thousand gleaned, From ...
ALEXANDER WILSON His problem is that he has to convince people in his own party that he can be a better candidate tha...
BRUNO JEANBART God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.
ADELA ROGERS ST. JOHNS There is no one a better judge than a person oneself of own performance.
ANUJ SOMANY He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.
JOSEPH HALL Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own...
WILKIE COLLINS A man can preach no better than he prays.
CHARLES STANLEY If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neigh...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON A woman has a much better chance than a man of acquittal on a murder charge. If she happens to be a ...
JOHN MCGEORGE I'd rather be a kid and play with paper planes, than be a man and play with a woman's heart.
NIALL HORAN The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.
MAE WEST There are no ugly women, only lazy ones
HELENA RUBINSTEIN Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she mana...
LESLIE MCINTYRE Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky
DEBORAH KERR Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk,...
PETRONIUS If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't...
HELEN LAWRENSON Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could g...
BETTY GRABLE Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
JOSEPH CONRAD There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad dayl...
WASHINGTON IRVING [He considers me] just a uterus with legs.
MARY BETH WHITEHEAD No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
THOMAS CARLYLE No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
THOMAS CARLYLE I am my own woman.
EVITA PERóN It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominanc...
BETTY FRIEDAN A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can...
JANE AUSTEN A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his me...
FREDERICK W. SMITH The beauty of a woman may be the root of all evil.
but the beauty is a only seen, your eyes wants to...
ARVIND YADAV For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The en...
CATHERINE ZETA JONES For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The en...
CATHERINE ZETA-JONES 'Tis better that a man's own works, than that another man's words should praise him
L. ESTRANGE The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown
To saints whose lives are better than his own.
CHARLES CHURCHILL A person is likely to be better than others if he or she seeks all qualities of his or her character...
ANUJ SOMANY A small change can make a big difference. You are the only one who can make our world a better place...
ANKITA SINGHAL No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
E. W. HOWE I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better t...
ASA GRAY An arrogant man whose arrogance we see from his own behaviour is more tolerable than a humble man wh...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY To be a better man, man should define his core value and write his own eulogy and conquer fear and w...
PALITHA ARIYARATHNA He who tells his own secret will hardly keep another’s.
VIKRANT PARSAI Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like he...
JANE AUSTEN Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or deba...
CATHY BETTER A great man even when dead,his name will continue to elicit greatness for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The light of a great man shines for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Who is a great man? A great man is a person whom people are dying to write books about.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS We're holding our own. We're actually in a little better shape now than this time last year.
DAVE COMPTON A man who has nothing for which he willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own per...
ANONYMOUS Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs.
COLETTE DOWLING Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
KAREL CAPEK No one really knows about you better than your own shadow.
VIKRANT PARSAI
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laugh at all.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE This great misfortune -- to be incapable of solitude.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.
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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no o...
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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very g...
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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other te...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to
falsehood.
[Fr., On ne trompe point e...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and
vanity.
[Fr., Les hommes rougissent...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay
it: even those judges who know th...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as
much difference between what he appe...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present.
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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Between good sense and good taste there is the difference between
cause and effect.
[Fr., Entre l...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE If Poverty is the Mother of Crimes, want of Sense is the Father.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in
love.
[Fr., L'on confie son secre...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who
confided it.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
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gives it strength and makes it stand...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is
made up of very hard but very polishe...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being
bored.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Rarely do they appear great before their valets.
[Fr., Rarement ils sont grands vis-a-vis de leur ...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the
greater dupe, he or you?
[Fr., Vo...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that
induces us to admire a fool.
[Fr., Du ...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit,
and yet does not prove that it exist...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment,
are diamonds and pearls.
[Fr., A...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as can help in making his fortune.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises
one, slights the other.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The slave has but one master; the ambitious man has as many as can help him in making his fortune.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The shortest and best ways to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their int...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and oth...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE A pious man is one who would be an athiest if the king were.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Children have neither past nor future; and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the pre...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupi...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Liberality lies less in giving liberally than in the timeliness of the gift.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE If you wish to be held in esteem, you must associate only with those who are esteemable
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existenc...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE It is a great misfortune to have the wit to speak, but not the sense when to remain silent.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE A strict observer is one who would be an atheist under an atheistic king.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any othe...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Love and friendship exclude each other
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE There are few finer excesses in the world than an excess of gratitude.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Bo...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE We come too late to say anything which has not been said already
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, ...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE A bigot is a person who, under an atheist king, would be an atheist
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be usef...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Modesty is to merit, as shades to figures in a picture, giving it strength and beauty
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Love lessens a woman's delicacy and increases a man's.
LA BRUYERE We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
LA BRUYERE Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.
JEAN DE LA LA FONTAINE Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE People who make no noise are dangerous.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, no...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE In short, Luck's always to blame.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE By the work one knows the workman.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE A hungry stomach cannot hear.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE By time and toil we sever
What strength and rage could never.
[Fr., Patience et longueur de te...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is
worth more.
[Fr., Rien n'est si da...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous with...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
JEAN DE LA BRUYèRE Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE He knows the universe and does not know himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Still people are dangerous.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Luck's always to blame.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE In short, luck's always to blame.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE The argument of the strongest is always the best.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what sh...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE One returns to the place one came from.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE One often has need of one, inferior to himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE By the work one knows the workmen.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
[Fr., Mieux vaut goujat debout qu'empereur enterre.]
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE In my end is my beginning.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE We ought to consider the end in everything.
[Fr., En toute chose il faut considerer la fin.]
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his
father.
[Fr., Est bien fou du cer...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
[Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux,
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JEAN DE LA FONTAINE The reasoning of the strongest is always the best.
[Fr., La raison du plus fort est toujours la me...
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