If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it.


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PIERRE DANINOS
Who pardons easily invites offense
PIERRE CORNEILLE
You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.
PIERRE BONNARD
One must never let go before having managed to set down one's first impressions.
PIERRE BONNARD
Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.
PIERRE BOURDIEU
The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
PIERRE TRUDEAU
The most difficult problem in conducting is intonation. You must know what is wrong and how to corre...
PIERRE BOULEZ
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in ...
PIERRE BAYLE
There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first auth...
PIERRE BAYLE
It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generati...
PIERRE BAYLE
The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than...
PIERRE BOURDIEU
It is still color, it is not yet light.
PIERRE BONNARD
There's always some further action to take.
PIERRE BOULLE
I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace wit...
PIERRE LAVAL
A liar is always lavish of oaths.
PIERRE CORNEILLE
My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and picture...
PIERRE LOTI
Creativity is to think more efficiently
PIERRE REVERDY
He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.
PIERRE CORNEILLE
Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.
PIERRE LAPLACE
By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them.
PIERRE CORNEILLE
Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction
PIERRE PACHET
If it was an elective, you'd get twenty girls and three boys doing ballroom dancing. Girls want to d...
PIERRE DULAINE
The books we love offer a sketch of a whole universe that we secretly inhabit, and in which we desir...
PIERRE BAYARD
He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.
PIERRE CORNEILLE
And the combat ceased, for want of combatants.
PIERRE CORNEILLE
Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to dist...
PIERRE BEAUMARCHAIS
We are extremely excited to announce that Milan Hejduk has decided to commit to this franchise for t...
PIERRE LACROIX
Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there ...
PIERRE SCHAEFFER
We're from New Orleans. When it's 42 degrees, it's cold.
PIERRE GANT
Even when you don't see Him working, He's busy working on your behalf. Forever grateful for God's gr...
YVONNE PIERRE
What's going on with short-term deficit is minor compared to the problem that is looming. But if the...
PIERRE ELLIS
And the battle ended through lack of combatants.
PIERRE CORNEILLE
A service beyond all recompense - Weighs so heavy that it almost gives offense
PIERRE CORNEILLE
Reason and love are sworn enemies
PIERRE CORNEILLE