Bernardin De Saint Pierre Quotes

#1. Apre' s le rare bonheur de trouver une compagne qui nous soit bien assortie, l'e tat le moins malheureux de la vie est sans doute de vivre seul. After the rare happiness of finding a companion with whom we are well matched, the least unpleasant state of life is without doubt to live alone.

Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

#2. Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.

Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

#3. Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills.

Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

#4. Because wisdom is innate, we can all enlighten ourselves.

Huineng

#5. Our ancestors have travelled the iron age; the golden is before us.

Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

#6. I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

James Joyce

#7. A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

Mae West

#8. Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living souls.

Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

#9. Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.

Virginia Satir

#10. When she cries, it is quiet, tearless, almost completely imperceptible: one more unheard prayer.

Joe Meno

#11. Patience is the courage of virtue.

Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

#12. There is never but one pleasant side to this human life. Like the globe on which we turn, our own rapid rotation is but one day, and a part of this day cannot receive light, so that the other part will not be delivered into darkness.

Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

#13. Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#14. The mere stuffing of the mind with a knowledge of facts is not education. The mind must not only possess a knowledge of the truth, but the soul must revere it, cherish it, love it as a priceless gem; and this human life must be guided and shaped by it in order to fulfill its destiny.

Joseph Fielding Smith

#15. I don't want to die. But I want to be dead.

Jean Ingelow

#16. A tomb is a monument placed on the limits of two worlds.

Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

#17. Bernstein Death, my son, is a good for all; it is the night of this worrisome day that one calls life.

Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

#18. If love is liking someone too much, then I think I'm in love with an awful lot of people

Stieg Larsson

#19. An effort made with ourselves for the good of others, with the intention of pleasing God alone.

Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

#20. The Christian religion alone contemplates the conjugal union in the order of nature; it is the only religion which presents woman to man as a companion; every other abandons her to him as a slave. To religion alone do European women owe their liberty.

Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

#21. If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.

Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

#22. We all got lucky doing Boy Meets World.

Will Friedle

#23. A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

Issey Miyake

#24. Tom, you're with me. Bring the tranq gun, we don't want to kill her, but if she so much as looks funny in my direction, you're going to send her off to play with the magical pastel bunnies in the Shouldn't-Have-Fucking-Done-That Meadow.

Mira Grant

#25. There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof of the love with which they regarded Nature.

Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

#26. The Internet opens up so many doors. It's a phenomenal tool for education but also a way for people to be scary and dangerous. We're living in a world where we can be hacked and exposed.

Christian Slater