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If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.


Blaise Pascal

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BLAISE PASCAL If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
BLAISE PASCAL If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
MARK TWAIN I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the...
BLAISE PASCAL Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will n...
BLAISE PASCAL The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason,...
BLAISE PASCAL When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, an...
BLAISE PASCAL If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, woul...
DOUGLAS ADAMS If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men ...
LORD HALIFAX Pascal, wipe them out...all of them.
STEVE JOBS We knew, going in, there would be four losers.
JOSH LIEF If every mortal looks at others as their friends, not as their enemies, the world would be a much be...
MORGAN RHODES Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, th...
BLAISE PASCAL Over and over, these men cry out against the weight of so many losses-not just a lover dead, but fri...
JANE GROSS If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less ...
JOSEPH ADDISON If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less ...
JOSEPH ADDISON It would be a better world if everyone in it knew all the truth about everything.
ANDY ROONEY If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.
ALPHONSE KARR If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
ALPHONSE KARR If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious
ALPHONSE KARR All men think all men mortal, but themselves. If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If no...
EDGAR SHEFFIELD BRIGHTMAN The world would run a lot smoother if more men knew how to dance.
UNKNOWN I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsk...
ANDREA BOCELLI If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stup...
DAVID HILBERT What Pascal overlo...
WALTER KAUFMANN If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry
WILLA CATHER If all men were just, there would be no need of valor
AGESILAUS The girls want to be competitive and I let them set what they want to do. But if you asked them, the...
DON KERLEY When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750 Experience makes us see an enormous diff...
T. S. ELIOT If my sons knew what drugs would do to them, they would not have gotten involved,
GEORGE CHUVALO If men only knew, modesty makes women fall in love faster than all the cock-a-doodling in the world.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Wherever you are, be all there.
CRAIG GROESCHEL world that people can only see is theirs if they were able to see others, everyone would have alot o...
ANUP THAPA MAGAR There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated a...
DALE CARNEGIE If you laid all of the lawyers in the world, end to end, on the equator ---- It would be a good idea...
UNKNOWN If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and ab...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and ab...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE If all the world were just, there would be no need of valor
PLUTARCH If there are "Infinite Dimensions" then there would be infinite alternate
realities, and if the...
STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew hersel...
ANN BRASHARES In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, lick...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men...
ELMER DAVIS This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men...
ELMER DAVIS The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportio...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their...
IAN FLEMING How many of us readers say this quote and mean it. "If I knew what I know now life would be differen...
ROBERT REED If there are infinite dimensions then there would be infinite alternate realities and if there are i...
STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH What if I say I'm not like the others
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays
FOO FIGHTERS What this administration has done ... is to say that until someone tells us that 19 men are going to...
GARY HART For years I played the what-if game. Maybe you're acquainted with this pastime. The rules are simple...
CRAIG GROESCHEL If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and abs...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't ...
ELLEN GLASGOW There is little to say after that performance. He is able to do what few others in the world can.
GENNARO GATTUSO If all the rich men in the world divided up their money amongst themselves, there wouldn't be enough...
CHRISTINA STEAD If I were asked to describe the difference between the sexes in the gay world, I would say that the ...
QUENTIN CRISP With abstraction, birds become numbers. Men and maniocs, too. We can look at a scene and say, ‘The...
DANIEL TAMMET Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party aga...
HARRIET HARMAN In a storm, I think, 'What if the gospel be not true? Then thou art, of all men, most foolish. F...
JOHN WESLEY We have not studied all of them. Many of them may be sound, while there may be others that merit ove...
PAUL LARRABEE You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.
ROALD DAHL Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or...
NORTON JUSTER If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
UNKNOWN If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
ALBERT EINSTEIN We knew the others, especially Auckland, would be fast out of the start so we had to get a jump on t...
ERIC MURRAY What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, an...
RICHARD RUSSO This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they a...
WERLEY NORTREUS Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a proce...
UMBERTO ECO If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
OSCAR WILDE I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It abs...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
BERNARD WILLIAMS What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
BERN WILLIAMS What is success in this world? I would say it consists of four simple things -- to live a lot, to lo...
RICHARD J. NEEDHAM There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman t...
JANE AUSTEN Isn't friendship amazing? At one time, our friends were just strangers to us. However, there was som...
JAMES A. MURPHY But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to d...
JANE AUSTEN To all what we have not tried, we would never wish to try if we knew that we would fail.
AULIQ ICE Still, who could say what men ever were looking for? They looked for what they found; they knew what...
HENRY JAMES There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren'...
MICHAEL CONNELLY Religion I have disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could giv...
PATRICK HENRY If you had a friend you knew you’d never see again, what would you say? If you could do one last t...
BROOKE DAVIES ...Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel g...
L.M. MONTGOMERY Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.
WILLIAM GLASSER We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produ...
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If only the world were full of truth, things would be better.
JOSH CHILDERS What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, n...
JAMES MADISON Paul has left four in. I'm not sure if all of them will run but I believe Ruby will be riding My Wil...
ANDY STEWART If men and women were surer of their God there would be more genuine manliness, womanliness, and god...
ELISABETH ELLIOT If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.
BERNARD LE BOVIER FONTENELLE If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.
FONTENELLE There are 15 main theories in physics, and we know all of them. If there weren't a finite number...
IVAR GIAEVER Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of ...
ANNIE DILLARD I knew there would be some breaks here and there and we got the most of them tonight.
KYLER HALL If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
FRAN LEBOWITZ I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't t...
GRAHAM GREENE Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men belie...
BRAM STOKER If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be en...
HENRY FORD If men are so wicked (as we see them now) with religion, what would they be without it?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The Pretender

Keep you in the dark you know they all pretend
Keep you in the dark an...
FOO FIGHTERS I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office,...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE

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BLAISE PASCAL I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter. [Fr., Je...
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BLAISE PASCAL I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
BLAISE PASCAL A jester, a bad character. [Fr., Diseur de bon mots, mauvais caractere.]
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BLAISE PASCAL The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thu...
BLAISE PASCAL A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.
BLAISE PASCAL Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed
BLAISE PASCAL Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction
BLAISE PASCAL The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent ple...
BLAISE PASCAL The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosp...
BLAISE PASCAL Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convin...
BLAISE PASCAL It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out...
BLAISE PASCAL The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
BLAISE PASCAL We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by reasons which have o...
BLAISE PASCAL Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except throug...
BLAISE PASCAL Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099 What does this desire and this inability of our...
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