Jean-Baptiste Lamarck quote: "The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and the reasons for the gradual development and improvement of their organization. This antiquity will appear even greater when he realizes the length of time and the particular conditions which were necessary to bring all the living species into existence. This is particularly true since man is the latest result and present climax of this development, the ultimate limit of which, if it is ever reached, cannot be known."

In politics nothing is contemptible.
JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT

Finality is not the language of politics.
JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT

Let it alone. Let it pass by. [Lat., Laissez faire, laissez passer.]
JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT

To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.
JEAN BAPTISTE MASILLON

If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of th...
JEAN BAPTISTE LEGOUVE

A brother is a friend given by Nature.
JEAN BAPTISTE LEGOUVE

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin ...
JEAN BAPTISTE LACORDAIRE

A Republican by principle and devotion, I will, until my death, oppose all Royalists and all enemies...
JEAN BAPTISTE BERNADOTTE

I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.
JEAN-BAPTISTE COROT

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
JEAN BAPTISTE LACORDAIRE

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of fe...
JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT

The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin...
JEAN BAPTISTE LACORDAIRE

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enter...
JEAN BAPTISTE MONTEGUT

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
JEAN BAPTISTE ROUSSEAU

The old men running the industry just have not got a clue. They've got to come to terms with the...
MARIANNE JEAN-BAPTISTE

Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme ...
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE

The crime of a mother is a heavy burden. [Fr., Le crime d'une mere est un pesant fardeau.]
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE

A friend in need is a friend indeed.
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE

No money, no Swiss. [Fr., Point d'argent, point de Suisse.]
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin ...
JEAN BAPTISTE LACORDAIRE

I still take my own lunches to work. That way I can control what I'm eating, as opposed to anoth...
MARIANNE JEAN-BAPTISTE

Gratitude is the memory of the heart. [Fr., La reconnaissance est la memoire du coeur.]
JEAN BAPTISTE MASSIEU

But innocence has nothing to dread. [Fr., Mais l'innocence enfin n'a rien a redouter.]
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE

Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage. [Lat., Les soupcons importun...
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE

All that I know of tomorrow is that Providence will rise before the sun.
JEAN BAPTISTE LACORDAIRE

In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and ...
JEAN BAPTISTE LACORDAIRE

There needs to be more film directors of colour. They bandy about the word 'diversity' a lot...
MARIANNE JEAN-BAPTISTE

A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE

But without money honor is nothing but a malady
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE

None love, but they who wish to love
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.
JEAN BAPTISTE LACORDAIRE

Innocence also weighs
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE

To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak
JEAN BAPTISTE MASILLON

It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least his...
JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT

In chemistry, our theories are crutches; to show that they are valid, they must be used to walk... A...
JEAN-BAPTISTE DUMAS

The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE

The heart that can no longer love passionately, must with fury hate
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE

Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE

My only hope lies in my despair.
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE

Small crimes always precedes great ones.
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE

Often it is fatal to live too long.
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE

My son, all my life I have loved this science so deeply that I can now hear my heart beat for joy. JEAN-BAPTISTE BIOT

I actually like getting up to blue skies.
MARIANNE JEAN-BAPTISTE

It is simply, and solely, the abundance of money within a state [which] makes the difference in its ...
JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT

I have seen many phases of life; I have moved in imperial circles, I have been a Minister of State; ...
JEAN-BAPTISTE DUMAS

Britain is no longer totally a white place where people ride horses, wear long frocks and drink tea....
MARIANNE JEAN-BAPTISTE

The envious will die, but envy never. [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE

The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine. [Fr., Le veritable Amphitryon Est ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE

The republic of letters. [Fr., La republique des lettres.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE

Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws. [Fr...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE

Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE

Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE

It is Hebrew to me. [Fr., C'est de l'hebreu pour moi.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE

The smallest errors are always the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleur...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE

But it is not reason that governs love. [Fr., Mais la raison n'est pas ce qui regle l'amour.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE

There are fagots and fagots. [Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE

To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw.
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE

You have wished it so, you have wished it so, George Dandin, you have wished it so. [Fr., Vous l'...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE

Too great haste leads us to error. [Fr., Le trop de promptitude a l'erreur nous expose.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE

One is easily fooled by that which one loves. [Fr., On est aisement dupe par ce qu'on aime.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE

Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding suc...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE

What the devil was he doing in this galley? [Fr., Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE

I recover my property wherever I find it. [Fr., Je reprends mon bien ou je le trouve.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE

Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE

The road is long fro the project to its completion. [Fr., Et le chemin est long du projet a la cho...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE

All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly. [Fr., La parfaite ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE

A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book. [Fr., Une louange en ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE

I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged. [Fr., Je ne te quitterai point que je ne t'aie ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE

We made some big 3-pointers and we win games when we shoot the ball well on the perimeter. We did a ...
BRIAN BAPTISTE

We made our free throws down the stretch and that was huge. We came out of the gate pretty good to s...
BRIAN BAPTISTE

When we score inside, that opens things up on the perimeter and we've been successful when we've bee...
BRIAN BAPTISTE

Losing Chris was a tough break and I really didn't know how the team was going to react. It took a l...
BRIAN BAPTISTE

We are here to accompany the people in peace. The problem is the United Nations is trying to annihil...
WILLIAM BAPTISTE

If you journalists weren't here, the U.N. would be shooting at us. They have destroyed our homes. Ou...
WILLIAM BAPTISTE

Death is a law and not a punishment. Three things ought to console us for giving up life; the frien...
JOHN BAPTISTE DUBOIS

Our goal had been to find all seven people, but I have to rely on the experts to tell me when they h...
MAYOR BRYAN BAPTISTE

Leadership and communication go hand in hand.
MAYOR BRYAN BAPTISTE

There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He return...
JEAN COCTEAU

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and...
JEAN PAUL

The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.
JEAN INGELOW

Only the mediocre are always at their best.
JEAN GIRAUDOUX

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
JEAN INGELOW

My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with...
WYCLEF JEAN

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD

At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't...
WYCLEF JEAN

In my long and difficult and mature life, I have come to learn that the less I know about acting and...
JEAN SEBERG

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul t...
JEAN PAUL

Too often, we make budget cuts - then blow the savings. Instead, think about your financial picture....
JEAN CHATZKY

One way to make sure you don't lose assets in the future is to streamline your accounts. Conside...
JEAN CHATZKY

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head...
JEAN GIRAUDOUX

If you want to give a tangible present, but you know the recipient wants cash, give a little bit of ...
JEAN CHATZKY

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL

It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poki...
JEAN HARRIS

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
JEAN PAUL

Turning a blind eye to your finances always brings trouble. When you let the bills or late notices s...
JEAN CHATZKY

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of th...
JEAN ROSTAND

A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy because the p...
JEAN KERR

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
JEAN PAUL

That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in...
WYCLEF JEAN

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
JEAN TOOMER

Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
WYCLEF JEAN

The look of a king is itself a deed.
JEAN PAUL

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
JEAN COCTEAU

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You m...
JEAN KERR

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under thei...
JEAN ROSTAND

Unlike other loans, a reverse mortgage doesn't have to be repaid until the borrower moves out of...
JEAN CHATZKY

A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit ...
JEAN LUSH

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
JEAN ROSTAND

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than...
JEAN ROSTAND

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, wit...
JEAN ROSTAND

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
JEAN ROSTAND

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to cre...
JEAN ROSTAND

The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons.
JEAN RENOIR

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
JEAN ROSTAND

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD

She said, "As long as we're with each other--"
"We know we're in exactly the right place," he f...
JEAN FERRIS

Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
JEAN ROSTAND

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, an...
JEAN ROSTAND

She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimm...
JEAN RHYS

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
JEAN ROSTAND

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
JEAN ROSTAND

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
JEAN ROSTAND

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the...
JEAN KERR

Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understa...
JEAN ROSTAND

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains...
JEAN ROSTAND

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
JEAN ROSTAND

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
JEAN ROSTAND

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains t...
JEAN ROSTAND

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
JEAN ROSTAND

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
JEAN ROSTAND

God, that checkroom of our dreams.
JEAN ROSTAND

I'm starting to believe that happily ever after includes people doing things that upset each other. ...
JEAN FERRIS

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of d...
JEAN PIAGET

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of ...
JEAN PIAGET

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich pe...
JEAN KERR

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.
JEAN PAUL

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
JEAN ROSTAND

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after dange...
JEAN PAUL

We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those wit...
JEAN VANIER

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
JEAN COCTEAU

At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old.
JEAN RHYS

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
JEAN GENET

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood -- we fail to see the whole arra...
JEAN ROSTAND

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a...
JEAN GENET

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's v...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD

Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
JEAN RACINE

Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
JEAN PAUL

The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.
JEAN PAUL

To be adult is to be alone.
JEAN ROSTAND

Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges...
JEAN GENET

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects an...
JEAN COCTEAU

No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
JEAN PAUL

Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
JEAN PAUL

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
JEAN PAUL

The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
JEAN PAUL

It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
JEAN ROSTAND

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich pers...
JEAN KERR

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must ...
JEAN COCTEAU

We all have the extraordinary coded within us... waiting to be released.
JEAN HOUSTON

The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD

Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people ha...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this si...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD

The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
JEAN PAUL

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain ...
JEAN KERR

The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
JEAN ROSTAND

Brevity is the body and soul of wit.
JEAN PAUL

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL

No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.
JEAN PAUL

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.
JEAN KERR

It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls...
JEAN ROSTAND

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree...
JEAN COCTEAU

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you have...
JEAN KERR

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasp...
JEAN KERR

Effective action is always unjust.
JEAN ANOUILH

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
JEAN ROSTAND

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you wa...
JEAN KERR

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. Thi...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
JEAN ROSTAND

One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
JEAN ROSTAND

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
JEAN COCTEAU

Small crimes always precedes great ones.
JEAN RACINE

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. ...
JEAN GENET

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
JEAN GENET

Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unloc...
JEAN HOUSTON

Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.
JEAN COCTEAU

Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light...
JEAN COCTEAU

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
JEAN DUBUFFET

Art is science made clear.
JEAN COCTEAU

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
JEAN COCTEAU

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ...
JEAN GIRAUDOUX

Despair is the only genuine atheism.
JEAN PAUL

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
JEAN COCTEAU

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
JEAN COCTEAU

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
JEAN COCTEAU

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

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