Top 100 Giacomo Quotes
#1. The surname Messi comes from the Italian town of Porto Recanati, in the province of Macerata, which saw the birth of the poet Giacomo Leopardi and the tenor Beniamino Gigli.
Luca Caioli
#2. Passion is the combination of lust and intellect. - (Giacomo Casanova)
Anthony Rudel
#3. You live in a damnably twisted and convoluted world," replied Mathias. "And you are trampling accross it with all the delicacy of an elephant in a glass shop!" -Conversation between Mathias Munster and Giacomo Foscarini
Riccardo Bruni
#4. Amore." Giacomo pressed a hand against his heart. "How we suffer for it.
Kerrelyn Sparks
#5. I did 'Quigley Down Under,' which is quite deliberately placed in Australia, which is a Tom Selleck, Alan Rickman, Laura San Giacomo film from '88, I want to say.
Ben Mendelsohn
#6. We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.
Giacomo Casanova
#7. In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.
Giacomo Leopardi
#8. Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.
Giacomo Casanova
#9. What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.
Giacomo Leopardi
#10. Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.
Giacomo Casanova
#13. I am writing My Life so that I may laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.
Giacomo Casanova
#14. I am willing to lend that hand, I will continue to stay involved with my charities as long as they need me.
Laura San Giacomo
#15. It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.
Laura San Giacomo
#16. What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself whenever I am in their company.
Giacomo Casanova De Seingalt
#17. In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.
Giacomo Casanova
#18. Lies, truth, loveI have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of it's charms.
Giacomo Casanova
#19. I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.
Giacomo Casanova
#20. People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.
Giacomo Leopardi
#21. Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.
Giacomo Leopardi
#22. Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy.
Giacomo Casanova
#23. I loved, I was loved, my health was good, I had a great deal of money, and I spent it, I was happy and I confessed it to myself.
Giacomo Casanova
#27. They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of first introducing it into minds which were ignorant of its charms (Casanova, p.34, Vol 1 Preface).
Giacomo Casanova
#28. If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.
Giacomo Casanova
#30. I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
Laura San Giacomo
#31. I don't believe in inspiration. I believe in work, because while one works one's creativity is opened.
Giacomo Manzu
#33. I have always had such sincere love for truth, that I have often begun by telling stories for the purpose of getting truth to enter the heads of those who could not appreciate its charms.
Giacomo Casanova
#34. No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.
Giacomo Leopardi
#36. In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
Giacomo Casanova
#37. Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.
Giacomo Leopardi
#38. I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.
Giacomo Leopardi
#40. Men are wretched by necessity, and determined to believe themselves wretched by accident.
Giacomo Leopardi
#41. I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company.
Giacomo Casanova
#42. I have not written my memoirs for those young people who can only save themselves from falling by spending their youth in ignorance, but for those whom experience of life has rendered proof against being seduced, whom living in the fire has transformed into salamanders.
Giacomo Casanova
#43. I'm working, but there is so much still to be done! And it frightens me to think of my weight of years. But on we go, without fear or hesitation!
Giacomo Puccini
#44. Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
#45. Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.
Giacomo Puccini
#46. Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield ... it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own.
Giacomo Leopardi
#47. I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.
Giacomo Casanova
#48. We've all had those moments where we take a person for granted.
Laura San Giacomo
#49. May God be with me! May Heaven bless this New Year. May it be a year of fruitfulness, of peace and prosperity; may it be a year of peace and unity for all mankind; may the world be freed of cholera.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
#50. I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.
Giacomo Casanova
#51. Since, though I do not repent my amorous exploits, I am far from wanting my example to contribute to the corruption of the fair sex, which deserves our homage for so many reasons, I hope that my observations will foster prudence in fathers and mothers and thus at least deserve their esteem.
Giacomo Casanova
#52. Happy are those lovers who, when their senses require rest, can fall back upon the intellectual enjoyments afforded by the mind! Sweet sleep then comes, and lasts until the body has recovered its general harmony. On awaking, the senses are again active and always ready to resume their action.
Giacomo Casanova
#53. God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.
Giacomo Casanova
#54. Freedom is the dream you dream
While putting thought in chains again
Giacomo Leopardi
#56. Angie gave me the glare -- the one that promised retribution, lameness, death, and worst of all, withholding of sexual favors, all with one look. With a look like that she could have made a good nun.
Giacomo Giammatteo
#57. The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.
Giacomo Casanova
#58. As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.
Giacomo Casanova
#59. They are the follies inherent to youth; I make sport of them, and, if you are kind, you will not yourself refuse them a good-natured smile.
Giacomo Casanova
#60. Give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him. If that woman were me,I would love him alone and forever
Giacomo Casanova
#61. The man who does good in doubt must have so much more merit than one who does it in the bright certainty of belief. "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold ... " A warning against the smugness of inherited faith.
Morris L. West
#62. It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
Giacomo Casanova
#63. If you have not done anything worthy of being recorded, at least write something worthy of being read.
Giacomo Casanova
#64. Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.
Giacomo Casanova
#65. For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.
Giacomo Casanova
#66. The man who forgets does not forgive, he only loses the remembrance; forgiveness is the offspring of a noble heart, of a generous mind, whilst forgetfulness is only the result of a weak memory, or of an easy carelessness.
Giacomo Casanova
#67. The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.
Giacomo Casanova
#68. Children find everything in nothing, men find nothing in everything.
Giacomo Leopardi
#69. After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.
Giacomo Casanova
#70. We are ants on the carcass of the world, spawned out of nothing, going busily nowhere. One of us dies, the others crawl over us to the pickings.
Morris L. West
#71. She'd never forgotten their last night in Seoul, or above it in fact, surveying the city lights from atop Namsan Mountain.
Giacomo Lee
#72. Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.
Giacomo Casanova
#73. A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.
Giacomo Leopardi
#74. Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.
Giacomo Casanova
#75. Second chances, miracles, angels, faith and religion all promise us a way of doing things better to smooth over the regrets and hope we make better decisions in the future. We all want to become better than who we are now, and we're all continuing to know ourselves better.
Laura San Giacomo
#76. As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.
Giacomo Casanova
#77. If we happen to be praised on account of qualities which we formerly despised, our estimation of those qualities immediately rises.
Giacomo Leopardi
#78. It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth
Giacomo Leopardi
#79. When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost.
Giacomo Casanova
#80. Keeping imagination alive through the wonderful world of storytelling.
Giacomo La Rosa
#81. If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.
Giacomo Casanova
#82. People are ashamed, not of the injustices they do, but of those they receive. And so, in order that the unjust person should be ashamed, there is no other way than to give as good as one gets.
Giacomo Leopardi
#83. Man is doomed either squander his youth, which is the only time he has to store provisions for the coming years and provide for his own well-being, or to spend his youth procuring pleasures in advance for that time of life when he will be too old to enjoy them.
Giacomo Leopardi
#84. By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.
Giacomo Casanova
#85. The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.
Giacomo Casanova
#86. We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.
Giacomo Leopardi
#87. The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.
Giacomo Casanova
#88. The world is changing and the physical barriers are down now. It's time for the emotional barriers to go down. And what better place to start than school?
Laura San Giacomo
#89. Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.
Giacomo Leopardi
#90. You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
Giacomo Casanova
#91. Praise the beautiful for their intelligence and the intelligent for their beauty.
Giacomo Casanova
#92. Youth runs away from old age, because it is its most cruel enemy
Giacomo Casanova
#93. The pleasure I gave my lovers was a four fifth of the pleasure I experienced.
Giacomo Casanova
#95. I cannot think without a shudder of contracting any obligation towards death. I hate death; for, happy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses, and those who do not love it are unworthy of it.
Giacomo Casanova
#97. Seated here in contemplations lost, my thought discovers vaster space beyond, supernal silence and unfathomed peace
Giacomo Leopardi
#98. The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if it wakes it is a torrent which no dam can hold back.
Giacomo Casanova
#99. Love becomes imprudent only when it is impatient to enjoy; but when it is a matter of procuring the return of a happiness to which a baleful combination of circumstances has raised impediments, love sees and foresees all that the most subtle perspicacity can discover.
Giacomo Casanova
#100. There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments.
Giacomo Casanova
