De Scudery Quotes

#1. Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life.

Madeleine De Scudery

#2. I can write music but I'm not much for words.

Jim Diamond

#3. Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Madeleine De Scudery

#4. Truth can be a matter of perspective, but I also think there's a truth that exists, that there are laws to the universe the way Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King believed.

Tom Shadyac

#5. Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

Joshua Reynolds

#6. Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.

Madeleine De Scudery

#7. The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.

Madeleine De Scudery

#8. Love makes life's sweetest pleasures and worst misfortunes.

Madeleine De Scudery

#9. Love makes mutes of those who habitually speak most fluently.

Madeleine De Scudery

#10. It is more important to have self-respect than to gain respect from others.

Madeleine De Scudery

#11. If we ceased to desire the goods of our neighbor, we would never commit murder or adultery or theft or false witness. If we respected the tenth commandment, the four commandments that precede it would be superfluous.

Rene Girard

#12. You're Dominican only if you do this, this, and that. And if you do this and that, you'll be accepted to a certain degree and if you don't, people will scorn you for it.

Junot Diaz

#13. The only rose without thorns is friendship.

Madeleine De Scudery

#14. A jealous man always finds more than he is looking for.

Madeleine De Scudery

#15. The real mark of your character comes from not how you react to your successes, of which I know there will be many. How you react to your failures, of which there will be, if you are bold, a number in your lifetime.

Daniel Goldin

#16. But when they kissed goodnight in bed, Therese felt their sudden release, that leap of response in both of them, as if their bodies were of some materials which put together inevitably created desire.

Patricia Highsmith

#17. Cynicism ... is the trade-mark of failure ...

Katherine Cecil Thurston

#18. By [age] 93, I had shrunk quite a lot. My car was known as the Phantom Cadillac. People would see it whizzing by and they would swear there was no driver.

George Burns

#19. A library is a platform upon which we catch trains to Every Where and Any Place, Another Time and Across Space. All aboard!

Esme Raji Codell

#20. I don't like the stigma that comes with being called a poet ... So I call what I'm doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.

Tom Waits

#21. School cross country runs started because the rugby pitches were flooded. There was an alternative: extra studying. This meant there were plenty of runners on sports afternoons.

Gordon Pirie

#22. The capacity to innovate - the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life - and skills like critical thinking, communication and collaboration are far more important than academic knowledge.

Tony Wagner

#23. If we don't occupy ourself with everything, then peaceful mind will have nowhere to abide.

Shenhui

#24. Jane wondered why small-minded people often form such large groups as she made her way home.

Chris Nicolaisen