Brissot's Quotes

#1. Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
[Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]

Edmund Burke

#2. I didn't hit puberty until I was, like, 17, so I love to talk about that.

Jenny Slate

#3. I do no damage. This is damage, this."
He picked up a paper from Camille's desk. "I can't read your writing, but I take it the general tenor is that Brissot should go and hang himself.

Hilary Mantel

#4. A sure cure for seasickness is to stand underneath a tree.

Spike Milligan

#5. It is going to take a long time to switch Egypt into a democracy.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#6. Occam's razor, the philosophical basis of all science: assume the simplest natural cause. That answer might turn out not to be correct, but we should not resort to more complex reasoning unless it is shown to be necessary.

Nick Lane

#7. It is less difficult for a woman to obtain celebrity by her genius than to be forgiven for it.

Jacques Pierre Brissot

#8. To different minds, poetry may present different phases. To me, the reverent faith of the people I lived among, and their faithful everyday living, was poetry; blossoms and trees and blue shies were poetry. God himself was poetry.

Lucy Larcom

#9. We could run away. I'd stay with you.

Andrea Cremer