Turning a blind eye to your finances always brings trouble. When you let the bills or late notices stay in their envelopes, you're making matters worse. When you finally have to deal with the problem - believe me, you will eventually - it will be exaggerated because you didn't take action.


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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
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
JEAN ANOUILH
Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.
JEAN PAUL
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
JEAN COCTEAU
Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for w...
JEAN ROSTAND
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
JEAN GENET
Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes...
JEAN PAUL
No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
JEAN PAUL
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tribut...
JEAN GENET
To hate fatigues.
JEAN ROSTAND
There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat,...
JEAN GIRAUDOUX
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
JEAN ROSTAND
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
JEAN ROSTAND
My only hope lies in my despair.
JEAN RACINE
Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
JEAN KERR
Without money honor is merely a disease.
JEAN RACINE
It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.
JEAN RACINE
Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dr...
JEAN PAUL
The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.
JEAN BRYANT
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other han...
JEAN COCTEAU
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
JEAN ROSTAND
The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition ...
JEAN PAUL
When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a stra...
JEAN GENET
To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ide...
JEAN ROSTAND
Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.
JEAN PAUL
The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have t...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD