Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicolas Chamfort

Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted.

Pierre Nicole

We need a reason to speak but none to keep silent.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

Austin O'Malley

There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.

Isaac Mayer Wise

In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.

Alice James

What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.

Leonardo da Vinci

Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.

Mike Dunlap

Your success will be in direct proportion to how you spend your ‘free’ time.

Jay Anderson

The volume of traffic has reached a proportion that?s scary.

Mahatma Gandhi

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

Orlando Gibbons

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.