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DAKOTA JOHNSON Oscar De La Hoya,
OSCAR DE LA HOYA He is to Atlantic City what Oscar De La Hoya is to Vegas. That building loves him.
LOU DIBELLA I got to train with some of the best and have critics like Oscar de la Renta and Calvin Klein. As a ...
NARCISO RODRIGUEZ Anything that moves it forward is a good thing, and this looks like it's moving forward.
TIM ANDERSON Los efectos de la conservación de la Tierra dependen de la conservación de las causas.
MARTíN BALAREZO GARCíA La juventud es un engaño -un engaño de la prensa y libros de texto. ¡La mejor época de la vida! ...
HERMANN HESSE La seguridad de la Fe vence a la duda de la Razón.
CRISTO LEON Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA My customers are successful workingwomen.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the c...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it's a letdown after the show is over. It...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and sa...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individu...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is m...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big splash on the runway.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have ...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I don't really know how to do casual clothes.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Every season I am inspired by women.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA The great thing about oak is that it looks old. It is beautifully solid and well made. There is some...
JOHN ANDREWS ¡La poesía no es de quien la escribe, sino de quien la usa!
ANTONIO SKáRMETA The animal is not afraid of the flame, but of the heat it emanates. (L'animal n'a peur de la flamme,...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE La educación hace a la gente fácil de dirigir pero difícil de manipular, fácil de gobernar pero ...
HENRY PETER BROUGHAM La felicidad duradera nos la proporcionan las consecuencias de nuestros actos, no la cantidad de nue...
ROBIN S. SHARMA Fashion is a very ongoing, renewing thing, about change and reaching for the next thing. You are per...
MARY QUANT Todo en ella es cautivante, como la consecuencia de una tormenta. No se supone que la gente obtenga ...
COLLEEN HOOVER Si el vino es el enemigo de la religión, habré de devorar al enemigo de la religión.
IDRIES SHAH La règle d'or de la conduite est la tolérance mutuelle, car nous ne penserons jamais tous de la m�...
MAHATMA GANDHI Una curva de la calle puso ante su vista el campanario de la catedral de Westminster, la forma fáli...
DAVID LODGE My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good...
G. HANNELIUS La tecnología etérea y digital que reemplazó a la imprenta ha alcanzado la mayoria de edad en un ...
JARON LANIER It is the fortune of France.
[Fr., C'est la fortune de France.]
NICEPHORUS La peur bloque la compréhension intelligente de la vie.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI Il est incertain où la mort nous attende, attendons-la partout. La préméditation de la mort est p...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Life is far too important a thing ever to talk about. -Oscar Wilde.
OSCAR WILDE But the mood in training is great and everybody looks forward to playing.
PETER JACKSON En cuanto al poder, se aleja a toda vela de la calle y del mercado, de las asambleas y de los parlam...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN When you think about Oscar Smith, Bill Myers is the first thing you think of.
KEVIN COLE Don't get me wrong, I love a good cardigan too, but a jacket - especially one with sharp shoulde...
NINA GARCIA Les hommes extrêmement heureux, et les hommes extrêmement malheureux a , sont également portés �...
MONTESQUIEU Las mujeres contribuyen más de la mitad de la nación y no es posible hacer labor legislativa seria...
CLARA CAMPOAMOR En otras palabras, la individualización consiste en transformar la identidad humana de algo 'dado' ...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN They say that the best counsel is that of woman.
[Sp., Dicen, que el primer consejo
Ha de ser ...
PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Amaba tan entrañablemente su patria, que jamás quiso dudar de que fuese también la mía por temor...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY La primera regla del Club de la lucha es: nadie habla sobre el Club de la lucha. La segunda regla de...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Es más difícil sondear la mente de una mujer que los fundamentos de la mecánica cuántica.
SHAHEN HACYAN la conveniencia de las actitudes esquiva los cuerpos, la decencia de las palabras blanquea los discu...
MICHEL FOUCAULT A veces la muerte de una sola persona puede justificar la muerte de una cultura entera.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Fashion is a great thing, it's a way to express who you are.
ZENDAYA Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS Cómo soportaba él los ojos de la muchacha y revolvía los suyos contra la cabeza juvenil, escapand...
JUAN CARLOS ONETTI El tiempo es cuestion de tiempo, la vida es cuestion de vida, la vida dura un momento, el tiempo tod...
MICHELLE SANCHEZ A veces nos vamos para tratar de encontrarnos. Al hacernos mayores nos perdemos. No sabemos qué hac...
ÁNGELA BECERRA The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
RAGHURAM RAJAN This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the mos...
JAVIER BARDEM Hay criminales que proclaman tan campantes ‘la maté porque era mía’, así no más, como si fue...
EDUARDO GALEANO Pongámonos de acuerdo en qué es la igualdad, pues si la libertad es la cima, la igualdad es la bas...
VICTOR HUGO La peor guerra es la que se da entre la humildad Y TU ORGULLO...
RON CHACHAGUA Las mujeres que se fanatizaron con la liberación femenina fueron las que encontraron una manera mar...
RICARDO ARJONA Cuando tu orgullo sea igual a cero, podré despejar esta variable que hoy veo imposible sacar en la ...
RON CHACHAGUA Soy el obrero que maneja mi vida, Soy el empleado que rige mi existir y soy el unico ke en mi vida h...
RON CHACHAGUA Una mujer debe tener dinero y una habitación propia para poder escribir novelas; y esto, como veis,...
VIRGINIA WOOLF La labor más importante del ser humano es buscar la moralidad en sus actos. Es de lo que depende nu...
ALBERT EINSTEIN El apócrifo aviso de la columna de 'busco trabajo'-'tengo auto, puedo viajar'- puede servir como ep...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN Hay que cumplir con la tarea de vivir de tal forma que cuando nos vayamos, hasta el dueño de la fun...
JOSé MADERO VIZCAíNO La vanidad es la necedad del egoísmo, y el orgullo, la insolencia de la vanidad.
FERNáN CABALLERO Alimentados de pesimismo no vivimos la vida, la sufrimos.
MIGUEL DELIBES It always depresses me when people moan about how commercial Christmas is. I love everything about i...
RICHARD E. GRANT La pensée est le labeur de l’intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté.
VICTOR HUGO En Harvard y otras universidades, estudiaron la importancia de la actitud en el éxito de las person...
JOHN C. MAXWELL La Station de Sevres.
MAX BECKMANN Otra vez tambores de guerra, y son siempre los mismos quienes los percuten. Decía Roger Garaudy que...
FERNANDO SáNCHEZ DRAGó Pero aun las ideas, por más insustanciales que parezcan, necesitan un punto de apoyo, de lo contrar...
STEFAN ZWEIG Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is
opinion that uses the force.
[Fr., La ...
BLAISE PASCAL Caustique ? Vous voulez dire : méchant ? Oui, je suis un peu méchant, dit Settembrini. Mon regret ...
THOMAS MANN The cordial agreement which exists between the governments of
France and Great Britain.
[Fr., La ...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Formar parte de la minoría, aunque fuese una minoría de uno solo, no te convertía en loco. Había...
GEORGE ORWELL Nous sommes tous des naufragés de l'âme vois-tu, la peinture n'est que le reflet de ce chagrin, an...
OLIVIER WEBER Una combinación de inversiones en sintonía con las necesidades y condiciones locales pueden permit...
JEFFREY D. SACHS Ne pas laisser la beauté de l'instant être contaminée par la lourdeur du passé ou l'incertitude ...
MUSSO GUILLAUM Une condamnation de la vie de la part du vivant n’est finalement que le symptôme d’une espèce ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Para la mayoría de nosotros la verdadera vida es la vida que no llevamos.
OSCAR WILDE The handle of the heart is the hand of another. (La poignée du cœur - Est la main de l'autre.)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE « La façon zen de vivre : PAS D'EGO, PAS DE PROBLEMES. »
KUNCHOK The great thing about us is it doesn't matter who you expect to step up. There's always someone else...
DALE REED Y la cuestión es ésta: la televisión invierte la evolución de lo sensible en inteligible y lo co...
GIOVANNI SARTORI La société bourgeoise moderne, élevée sur les ruines de la société féodale, n'a pas aboli les...
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Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA My customers are successful workingwomen.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the c...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it's a letdown after the show is over. It...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and sa...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individu...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is m...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big splash on the runway.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have ...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I don't really know how to do casual clothes.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Every season I am inspired by women.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I think my body went through a lot, went through the wringer. In terms of being inside the ring, get...
OSCAR DE LA HOYA Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.
OSCAR DE LA HOYA I think about making a comeback every single day. I went running, I went training, did that for a fe...
OSCAR DE LA HOYA There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.
OSCAR DE LA HOYA You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.
OSCAR DE LA HOYA These two guys are veteran fighters, ... The good thing is, both of these guys have chins, so it is ...
OSCAR DE LA HOYA Vargas is not as fast. But when he hits you, it feels very heavy. It's kind of thudding. Mosley, he'...
OSCAR DE LA HOYA Oscar De La Hoya,
OSCAR DE LA HOYA Bernard wants to do what Sugar Ray Robinson tried to do and go from middleweight to capture that lig...
OSCAR DE LA HOYA Whatever comes next for me, as far as boxing is concerned, I have no regrets. I would never change w...
OSCAR DE LA HOYA I would have loved to have met Elvis Presley, ... He was the King. It's very interesting to me; the ...
OSCAR DE LA HOYA I tried to do the impossible on paper -- beat the middleweight champ coming up from 130 pounds,
OSCAR DE LA HOYA I tried to do the impossible on paper -- beat the middleweight champ coming up from 130 pounds.
OSCAR DE LA HOYA But people get these crazy ideas, ... I went on my own roller-coaster ride to gain acceptance from M...
OSCAR DE LA HOYA In love, as in everything else, experience is a physician who never comes until after the disorder i...
DE LA TOUR Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.
JEAN DE LA LA FONTAINE The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE One forgives to the degree that one loves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Governor Jan Brewer and the Arizona legislature have created an environment in Arizona where perform...
ZACK DE LA ROCHA There are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments a...
ZACK DE LA ROCHA Your anger is a gift.
ZACK DE LA ROCHA I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in...
ZACK DE LA ROCHA I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because o...
ZACK DE LA ROCHA One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about ...
ZACK DE LA ROCHA All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and...
WALTER DE LA MARE Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
WALTER DE LA MARE A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected w...
WALTER DE LA MARE Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rap...
WARREN DE LA RUE By shading off, as I have done, the portion of the area of the diagram according to the individual a...
WARREN DE LA RUE For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.
WARREN DE LA RUE Even if you live in a tiny village, there's an Internet site. It's quite easy to find clothe...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in ...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE Overall when you work in fashion, you're always in a rush. You're always a little late, alwa...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn't right. That mattered e...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE Buying a matching blouse and skirt from the same store is a crime. A clever mix of chic and cheap hi...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE I saw a lot of haute couture all my childhood, and without knowing it I've learned from when I w...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE I would love to live in India or in the South of France, but Roger Vivier doesn't have offices y...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE If you don't feel comfortable in a plunging sweater, skin-tight jeans and killer heels, go home ...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfel...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on ...
INES DE LA FRESSANGE Out of difficulties grow miracles.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
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 Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you ...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
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 They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
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 Love and friendship exclude each other.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad example...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD 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 You can really only enjoy life when you're extremely busy.
JOSEPHINE DE LA BAUME There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of bein...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD 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 We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD His brow is seamed with line and scar;
His cheek is red and dark as wine;
The fires as of ...
WALTER DE LA MARE The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been t...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Only the great can afford to have great defects.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD You may be to call up the entire encyclopedia, but a brain with no heart and no reasoning .. well, n...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ My brother has a tendency to get quite lyrical when he writes music; he gets so romantic, it's b...
JOSEPHINE DE LA BAUME It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the g...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of bi...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is p...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous with...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD He got out of bed and peeped through the blinds. To the east and opposite to him gardens and an appl...
WALTER DE LA MARE Few people know how to be old.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad exam...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's pr...
JOSEPHINE DE LA BAUME I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high sc...
MATT DE LA PENA The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortu...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all th...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we
laugh at all.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant afte...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Usually we praise only to be praised.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
JEAN DE LA BRUYèRE Even if they end up together, which I highly doubt, given the strength of that particular bond-...-b...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Who knew that the path to a womans heart was through the soul of an honest man?
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ A poor old Widow in her weeds
Sowed her garden with wild-flower seeds;
Not too shallow, an...
WALTER DE LA MARE It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not ...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we shou...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means,...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us, and others who please us in spite of their ...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE He knows the universe and does not know himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD