D'aubigne Quotes

#1. Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it.

Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon

#2. Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other.

Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon

#3. The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.

Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon

#4. Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment, I may be startled into seeing that you are here in all your splendor, always and everywhere, barely hidden, beneath, beyond, within this life I breathe.

Frederick Buechner

#5. Sin is not so sinful as hypocrisy.

Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon

#6. Three-fourths of all marriages are unhappy.

Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon

#7. The government that governs best, governs best!

Jon Stewart

#8. There's 3 types of people in this world: there's talkers, there's watchers, and there's doers.

Jeremy Stephens

#9. By that time, Damen had received the tally of the dead: twelve hundred of us, six and a half thousand of them. He

C.S. Pacat

#10. God accomplishes his designs unknown even to those whom he employs as his instruments.

Jean-Henri Merle D'Aubigne

#11. Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?

Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon

#12. I've always written poetry but I didn't realise it was a therapy for me until I was maybe 15. That's when my singing started to come together as well because I was listening to so much jazz. What I love I will always embrace.

Amy Winehouse

#13. Love makes you do,
the best of things.
Love makes you do,
the worst of things,
It's a feeling extreme,
that doesn't exist in between.

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#14. Let us reject this decree. In matters of conscience the majority has no power.
Merle d'Aubigne, History of the Reformation, b. 13, ch. 5.

Ellen G. White

#15. You killing me smalls.

Cambria Hebert

#16. A great man may be the personification and type of the epoch for which God destines him, but he is never its creator.

Jean-Henri Merle D'Aubigne

#17. Reject racial or religious hate. Embrace moderate Islam.

Geraldo Rivera

#18. In delay there lies no plenty.

Shirley Jackson

#19. Ideas make their way in silence like the waters that, altering behind the rocks of the Alps, loosen then from the mountains upon which they rest.

Jean-Henri Merle D'Aubigne

#20. It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.

Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon

#21. Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty.

Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon

#22. Woman softens her own troubles by generously solacing those of others.

Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon

#23. The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can.

John Prine

#24. Customer: I'm looking for a book for my son. He's six.
Bookseller: How about this one - it's about-
Customer: Yeah, whatever, I'll take it.

Jen Campbell

#25. If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

Jean Cocteau

#26. The only thing I'll ever ask of you, you've got to promise not to stop when I say when

Foo Fighters

#27. Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy.

Jacques Verges

#28. Some causes are worth fighting for, some are worth dying for.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#29. Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.

Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon

#30. Hope says to us constantly, "Go on, go on ... "

Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon