Il ne faut pas attendre d’être parfait pour commencer quelque chose de bien.
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J.K. ROWLING Mais dans la vie, tout n'est pas parfait. Parfois, il faut se fabriquer sa propre histoire. Donner u...
SARAH DESSEN Toutes les opinions ne se valent pas, et il ne faut pas confondre l'éloquence d'une parole avec la ...
TZVETAN TODOROV Vous n'y penserez plus dans six mois. Pourquoi ne pas commencer tout de suite ?
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Ce monde, tel qu'il est fait, n'est pas supportable. J'ai donc besoin de la lune, ou du bonheur, ou ...
ALBERT CAMUS Des jugements, des appréciations de la vie, pour ou contre, ne peuvent, en dernière instance, jama...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Quoi qu’il en soit, Leibnitz ne sut jamais s’expliquer nettement sur les principes de son calcul...
RENé GUéNON Il est bien des choses qui ne paraissent impossibles que tant qu'on ne les a pas tentées.
ANDRE GIDE A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his
valet.
[Fr., Il faut etre bien hero...
THOMAS CARLYLE Pour savoir écrire, il faut avoir lu, et pour savoir lire, il faut savoir vivre
GUY DEBORD AGAMEMNÔN. Il n’est pas facile à un roi d’être pieux.
ODYSSEUS. Mais les rois peuv...
SOPHOCLES L’impossible, nous ne l’atteignons pas, mais il nous sert de lanterne.
RENE CHAR Il m'est indifférent de faire ou non de grandes choses, parce que j'ai l'intime conviction que de l...
ETTY HILLESUM Les tentatives faites pour connaître la richesse et l'originalité des cultures humaines, et pour l...
CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS Nous avons déjà parlé de la notion temporelle propre à chaque saison, l'été étant l'époque o...
MARIE-CLAIRE DOLGHIN-LOYER Tous les jours arrivaient des avions et sur chacun, il y avait un message.
« Gardez votre eau ...
CHRISTIANE DUCHESNE Don Juan : [...] Les voilà, mes spectres, les spectres de ce que je ne suis pas. Ce sont eux qui me...
HENRY DE MONTHERLANT Ne renoncez pas à faire ce que vous voulez vraiment faire. Là où il y a des rêves, de l’amour ...
ELLA FITZGERALD In the adversity of our best friends we often find something
which does not displease us.
[Fr., D...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD « Il faut avoir une très haute idée, non pas de ce que l'on fait, mais de ce qu'on pourrait fair...
EDGAR DEGAS Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible p...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Puis il réfléchit: la réalité ne coïncide habituellement pas avec les prévisions; avec une log...
JORGE LUIS BORGES Cela est bien, repondit Candide, mais il faut cultiver notre jardin.
VOLTAIRE No man is a hero to his valet.
[Fr., Il n'y a pas de grand homme pour son valet-de-chambre.]
MME. A.M. BIGOT DE CORNUEL Il est incertain où la mort nous attende, attendons-la partout. La préméditation de la mort est p...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE – Bah alors, c’est ce que je dis, avec la dotation qu’on a, ajouta Făneață puis il se leva...
CăLIN TORSAN Le vin est la gaieté, dit-on ; comment cet océan de vin qui submerge la commune de Bercy n’égay...
PAUL FéVAL PèRE Nul homme n’est une île en soi. Nous faisons tous partie d’un continent et chaque fois que tu e...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Bellegarrigue revient en France en février 1848, la veille des événements qui vont mener au renve...
ANSELME BELLEGARRIGUE Les stoïciens ont voulu soutenir que nos passions dépendent entièrement de notre volonté, et que...
BARUCH SPINOZA ... sentimentele slăbesc cînd le schimbi locul.../ Frédéric s’était attendu à des spa...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Voila bien la différence entre le singe et le footballeur. Le premier a trop de mains ou pas assez ...
PIERRE DESPROGES Il n'y a pas d'amour dans la liberté individuelle, dans l'indépendance, c'est tout simplement un m...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Il faut garder quelques sourires pour se moquer des jours sans joie.
CHARLES TRENET Jamais ma grand-mère ne se séparait de moi sans me donner quelque chose, un bonbon, une pièce de ...
NATHACHA APPANAH Le fameux discours de Saint-Just a ainsi tous les airs d'une étude théologique. "Louis [XVI] étra...
ALBERT CAMUS Quel que soit le nombre de saintes paroles que vous lisez, que vous prononciez, quel bien vous feron...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA La Société ne fait-elle pas de l'homme, suivant les milieux où son action se déploie, autant d'h...
HONORé DE BALZAC Sans doute te demandes-tu si je ne suis pas aigri de n'en avoir écrit aucun. Eh bien, non! Mon tale...
ALEXANDRE JARDIN The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make
the public?
[Fr., Le public! le...
THOMAS CHALMERS Tu n’es encore pour moi qu’un petit garçon tout semblable à cent mille petits garcons. Et je n...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Il faut longtemps cultiver un ami avant qu'il réclame son dû d'amitié. Il faut s'être ruiné dur...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY La porte s’est ouverte tout de suite et est allée co - gner contre le mur. J’ai perçu un claqu...
SYLVIE BéRARD To silence the love, it takes a deaf. (Pour taire l'amour, - Il faut un sourd)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Il n'y a pas de rapport sexuel.
JACQUES LACAN It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning
them.
[Fr., Il n'est pas necess...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS Si tu entamais ces friandises ? Ah, les Dragées surprises de Bertie Crochue ! Un jour, quand j’é...
J.K. ROWLING Ce qu'il voyait dépasser de sa manche ressemblait à un gros gant en caoutchouc, couleur chair. Il ...
J.K. ROWLING Si nous avons accordé à l'Amérique le privilège de l'histoire cumulative, n'est-ce pas, en effet...
CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Il faut agir en homme de pensée et penser en homme d'action.
HENRI BERGSON Aimer, ça ne veut pas dire se ressembler. Aimer, ça ne veut pas dire être pareils, se conduire co...
JUSTINE LéVY It takes nine tailors to make a man.
[Fr., Il faut neuf tailleurs pour faire un homme.]
JOHN HEYWOOD J'ai encore un vif souvenir de Freud me disant : "Mon cher Jung, promettez-moi de ne jamais abandonn...
C.G. JUNG To rule an iceberg, you must swim,.. Deep.
Pour régner sur l'iceberg, il faut savoir nager en profo...
CARL MATHIEU Voilà bien la famille : même celui qui n'a pas sa place dans le monde, qui n'est ni célèbre ni r...
ROBERT MUSIL Mais, j’aurai beau supplier, j’aurai beau me révolter, il n’y aura plus rien pour moi ; je n...
HENRI BARBUSSE We ought to consider the end in everything.
[Fr., En toute chose il faut considerer la fin.]
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Cette qualité de la joie n’est-elle pas le fruit le plus précieux de la civilisation qui est nô...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which
sticks.
[Fr., Calumniez, calumniez; ...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS The king reigns but does not govern.
[Fr., Le roi regne, il ne gouverne pas.]
LOUIS ADOLPHE THIERS Ce qui m'intéresse, c'est de savoir qui paie les Rédempteurs, pas de me débarrasser d'une poigné...
GABRIEL KATZ —Mais, quelle que soit l'importance de l'événement, dès qu'il est écrit sur le papier, il ne f...
YōKO OGAWA No statue for the vanquished! (Pas de statue - Pour les vaincus!)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE As-tu déjà été amoureux? C'est horrible non? Ca rend si vulnérable. Ca t'ouvre la poitrine et l...
NEIL GAIMAN L'aube approche. Elle n'est plus qu'à quelques pas de cette zone étrange qui sépare la nuit du jo...
ELIF SHAFAK Un homme de cinquante ans ne tient pas longtemps rancune à une femme de vingt-trois.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Refuser de faire quelque chose parce qu'on l'a déjà fait, parce qu'on a déjà vécu l'expérience...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ ô enfance du coeur humain qui ne vieillit jamais! voilà donc à quel degré de puérilité notre s...
FRANçOIS-RENé DE CHATEAUBRIAND Un défaut qui empêche les hommes d'agir, c'est de ne pas sentir de quoi ils sont capables.
J. B. BOSSUET Notre plus grand mérite n’est pas de ne jamais tomber, mais de nous relever à chaque fois.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Il n'y a que deux ou trois crimes à faire dans le monde, dit Curval, et, ceux-là faits, tout est d...
MARQUIS DE SADE Il n'y a pas des sots si incommodes que ceux ont de l'esprit.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE L'avenir, il y faut travailler comme les tisseurs de haute lice travaillent à leurs tapisseries, sa...
HENRIK IBSEN Ariette III
Il pleure dans mon coeur
Comme il pleut sur la ville ;
Quell...
PAUL VERLAINE Il défendait une théorie : les couples ne fréquentent pas les célibataires. D'abord parce que le...
LAURENT BETTONI Il y a des personnes à qui l'intention ne vaut rien, seul le hasard leur est propice. Le silence co...
ERRI DE LUCA On ne renonce pas à sauver le navire dans la tempête parce qu'on ne saurait empêcher le vent de s...
THOMAS MORE Quand il mangeait des babas ou des éclairs, il se sentait coupable jusqu'à l'âme, à cause de la ...
BOILEAU-NARCEJAC Il ne savait pas encore s'il souffrait parce qu'il suivait une pente et que l'avenir venait à lui s...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Tu as tout à apprendre, tout ce qui ne s'apprend pas: la solitude, l'indifférence, la patience, le...
GEORGES PEREC Vivre sans lecture c'est dangereux, il faut se contenter de la vie, ça peut amener à prendre des r...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Ne pas laisser la beauté de l'instant être contaminée par la lourdeur du passé ou l'incertitude ...
MUSSO GUILLAUM He is not always at ease who laughs.
[Fr., Ce n'est pas etre bien aise que de rire.]
DANTE ("DANTE ALIGHIERI") Sur terre, ce ne sont pas les occasions de s'émerveiller qui manquent, mais les émerveillés.
ÉRIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT Les gens qui ont besoin de plus qu une valise ne sont pas de vrais voyageurs, ce sont des touristes.
IRA LEVIN L’homme cherche un principe au nom duquel il puisse mépriser l’homme ; il invente un autre mond...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Comment des sociétés contemporaines, restées ignorantes de l'électricité et de la machine à va...
CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS Elle lui semblait si belle, si séduisante, si différente des gens du commun qu'il ne comprenait pa...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Quand tout le monde est militaire, le crime est de ne pas tuer si l'order 'exige.
ALBERT CAMUS Lorsque la confusion règne, il est facile de se rappeler cette vérité : Je ne suis ni mes pensée...
ECKHART TOLLE Une catastrophe, en général et quelle que soit sa nature, s'annonce avec fracas, a son lot de sign...
LUCAS VALLERIE - Toi et ta grande cause... (Ignorant le troubadour, le sorceleur avança en titubant.) Ta grande ca...
ANDRZEJ SAPKOWSKI - Toi et ta grande cause... (Ignorant le troubadour, le sorceleur avança en titubant.) Ta grande ca...
ANDRZEJ SAPKOWSKI Oublie-moi de temps en temps, ça te reposera. Tu m'oubliais si bien avant que je ne me pende.
RéGIS JAUFFRET Nous sommes tous des naufragés de l'âme vois-tu, la peinture n'est que le reflet de ce chagrin, an...
OLIVIER WEBER Ah ! cher ami, que les hommes sont pauvres en invention. Ils croient toujours qu'on se suicide pour ...
ALBERT CAMUS Non. Tu n'es plus le maître anonyme du monde, celui sur qui l'histoire n'avait pas de prise, celui ...
GEORGES PEREC When we have not what we love, we must love what we have.
[Fr., Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime,...
ROGER DE BUSSY-RABUTIN (DE BUSSY)
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What we know is not much; what we do not know is immense.
PIERRE My family background was deeply Christian.
ABBE PIERRE And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand.
PIERRE LOTI It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative ...
ABBE PIERRE Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the cou...
PIERRE TRUDEAU To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.
PIERRE CORNEILLE When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
ABBE PIERRE It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
ABBE PIERRE Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
ABBE PIERRE I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.
ABBE PIERRE Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.
ABBE PIERRE Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
ABBE PIERRE Hope is not a matter of age.
ABBE PIERRE People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in peopl...
ABBE PIERRE The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a ...
ABBE PIERRE This dark brightness that falls from the stars.
PIERRE CORNEILLE One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
PIERRE CORNEILLE In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.
PIERRE CORNEILLE What makes eBay successful - the real value and the real power at eBay - is the community. It's ...
PIERRE OMIDYAR In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inev...
PIERRE LAVAL Microfinance initiatives are very high-touch models. The loan officer meets with local groups of bor...
PIERRE OMIDYAR People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in peopl...
ABBE PIERRE It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side...
ABBE PIERRE It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
ABBE PIERRE Brave men are brave from the very first.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwh...
PIERRE CONEILLE Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.
[Fr., Qui peut ce qui lui plait, commande...
PIERRE CORNEILLE Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it.
[Lat., Ici l'honneur m'oblige, et j'y veux satisfai...
PIERRE CORNEILLE All great virtues become great men.
[Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
[Fr., Le crime fait la honte et non pas l'echafaud...
PIERRE CORNEILLE All evils are equal when they are extreme.
[Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extre...
PIERRE CORNEILLE To myself alone do I owe my fame.
[Fr., Je ne dois qu'a moi seul toute ma renommee.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE Let us be friends, Cinna, it is I who invite you to be so.
[Fr., Soyons amis, Cinna, c'est moi qui...
PIERRE CORNEILLE Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
PIERRE CHARRON Peace is produced by war.
PIERRE CORNEILLE The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but...
PIERRE CHARRON Happiness seems made to be shared.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Danger breeds best on too much confidence.
PIERRE CORNEILLE The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
PIERRE CORNEILLE The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
PIERRE CHARRON A liar is full of oaths.
PIERRE CORNEILLE All evils are equal when they are extreme.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Those who easily forgive invite offenses.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Those who resolve to conquer or die, are rarely conquered.
PIERRE CONEILLE Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
PIERRE BONNARD We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
PIERRE CORNEILLE A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.
PIERRE CORNEILLE A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe.
PIERRE BURTON We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
PIERRE CORNEILLE To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.
PIERRE CORNEILLE I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.
PIERRE CORNEILLE One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhil...
PIERRE CONEILLE It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
PIERRE CORNEILLE The true science and study of man is man.
PIERRE CHARRON To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Guess if you can, choose if you dare.
PIERRE CORNEILLE And the combat ceased, for want of combatants.
[Fr., Et le combat cessa, faute de combattants.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE Brave men are brave from the very first.
[Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE A liar is always lavish of oaths.
[Fr., Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE A good memory is needed once we have lied.
[Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read
that we ought to forgive our frien...
PIERRE CORNEILLE He who forgives readily only invites offense.
[Fr., Qui pardonne aisement invite a l'offenser.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
PIERRE CORNEILLE The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must b...
PIERRE CARDIN Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.
[Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE He who is hated by all can not expect to live long.
[Fr., Qui vit hai de tous ne saurait longtemps...
PIERRE CORNEILLE Happiness seems made to be shared.
[Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE Don’t force your gifts: if you are a rascal, live like one; if you are half honest, be half honest...
PIERRE CERESOLE If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, ...
PIERRE GALLOIS It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
PIERRE BEAUMARCHAIS The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it...
PIERRE CHARRON I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was ...
PIERRE LOTI The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influe...
PIERRE BOURDIEU Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.
PIERRE BONNARD The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
PIERRE BONNARD After months of preparation working with a stylist who explained to me how a fashion house runs and ...
PIERRE NINEY We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
PIERRE CORNEILLE The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.
PIERRE BOURDIEU He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.
PIERRE CORNEILLE It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and...
PIERRE BAYLE Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, inso...
PIERRE BOURDIEU Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.
PIERRE BONNARD The greater the effort, the greater the glory.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Don't allow the pride, ego and insecurities of others stunt your growth.
YVONNE PIERRE Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.
PIERRE CORNEILLE But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama bu...
PIERRE LOTI When you focus on someone's disability you'll overlook their abilities, beauty and uniqueness. Once ...
YVONNE PIERRE At times, we are the bridge that allows another to re-enter the world after a loss. Don't mistake it...
DANIELLE PIERRE Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creation...
PIERRE LOTI The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, w...
ABBE PIERRE Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recogn...
PIERRE LOTI The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
PIERRE BAYLE True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.
PIERRE CORNEILLE It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear pow...
PIERRE SCHAEFFER After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest c...
ABBE PIERRE There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first auth...
PIERRE BAYLE I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Euro...
PIERRE LAVAL In the early days of eBay, I articulated for the very first time this belief that people are basical...
PIERRE OMIDYAR Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, whic...
PIERRE SCHAEFFER Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.
PIERRE SCHAEFFER American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.
PIERRE SALINGER What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they sho...
ABBE PIERRE Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch.
[Fr., La clemence est la plus belle marque
Qui...
PIERRE CORNEILLE When the winds of life are pushing you back, THAT'S when you push forward the hardest.
YVONNE PIERRE It's easy to point out other people flaws, but it takes TRUE courage and strength take a look in the...
YVONNE PIERRE God has ALREADY given you the strength you need, it's up to you to recognize that you were BORN a co...
YVONNE PIERRE I think it's better to be a woman with some curves. It's more natural.
PIERRE DUKAN My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
PIERRE TRUDEAU Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.
PIERRE BAYLE The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward.
PIERRE SCHAEFFER An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is n...
PIERRE CORNEILLE Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
PIERRE CORNEILLE We need some big guards.
BUTCH PIERRE We knew what he could be, but he kind of got out of town on us and people saw him.
BUTCH PIERRE That was when it kicked in, when they kind of started to understand.
BUTCH PIERRE It's basically Louisiana kids. If you can sign the top two or three Louisiana kids every year, you s...
BUTCH PIERRE It's a family type thing.
BUTCH PIERRE As soon as he crosses mid-court, he's a threat to put one up.
BUTCH PIERRE He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign ...
PIERRE SALINGER I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through...
PIERRE TRUDEAU Ambition aspires to descend.
PIERRE CORNEILLE There is nothing unhealthy about educating youngsters about nutrition.
PIERRE DUKAN By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them.
[Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les sou...
PIERRE CORNEILLE I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work.
PIERRE REVERDY He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and
insolence, if unpunished, increases!
...
PIERRE CORNEILLE The shortest follies are the best.
[Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]
PIERRE CHARRON If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
PIERRE BEAUMARCHAIS There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in ...
PIERRE BAYLE in the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.
PIERRE CORRIELLE When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.
PIERRE CORNEILLE When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.
PIERRE CORNEILLE He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be.
PIERRE CORNEILLE He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestow should never remember it.
PIERRE CHARRON The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
PIERRE TRUDEAU The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we w...
PIERRE TRUDEAU Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing thei...
PIERRE TRUDEAU Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, le...
PIERRE TRUDEAU Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are base...
PIERRE TRUDEAU Love is a tyrant sparing none.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Tyrant, step from the throne, and give place to thy master.
[Fr., Tyran, descends du trone et fais...
PIERRE CORNEILLE We ask them to think outside the box when they are nominating. It may be the quiet, shy girl no one ...
CHéRI PIERRE Show your children tolerance, humility, respect, honesty, and curiosity towards the universe they ar...
PIERRE MOUELHI Before being able to strive forward, you have to give yourself credit for what you put up with.
PIERRE MOUELHI I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall J...
PIERRE LOTI Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirabl...
PIERRE CURIE Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the popul...
PIERRE BOURDIEU Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.
PIERRE CORNEILLE In February of 1996, about six months after I created eBay, I started receiving a spate of complaint...
PIERRE OMIDYAR Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.
PIERRE OMIDYAR Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be ...
PIERRE BEAUMARCHAIS One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.
PIERRE CORNEILLE For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50...
PIERRE DUKAN He who forgives readily only invites offense.
PIERRE CORNEILLE I can't walk in a toy store in a foreign country without seeing a kid with a minion backpack.
PIERRE COFFIN How can you tell a story with one frame that, by its simplicity, manages to tell a story, a gag that...
PIERRE COFFIN Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
PIERRE BOULEZ A good memory is needed after one has lied.
PIERRE CORNEILLE It takes good memory to keep up a lie.
PIERRE CORNEILLE I had always been interested in markets - specifically, the theory that in financial markets, goods ...
PIERRE OMIDYAR As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Les gens ne connaissent pas leur bonheur... mais celui des autres ne leur échappe pas
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
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