Le Temps Quotes

#1. There is nothing by which a man exasperates most people more, than displaying a superior ability of briliancy in conversation. They seem pleased at the time; but their envy makes them curse him at their hearts.

Samuel Johnson

#2. L'adolescence est le seul temps o u' l'on ait appris quelque chose. Adolescence is the only time when we can learn something.

Marcel Proust

#3. The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.

David Trimble

#4. May my enemies tremble if they still have time! (Que mes ennemis soient tremblants - S'ils en ont encore le temps!)

Charles De Leusse

#5. I had no illusions about my role. Prince Charming with a price tag. I was the fantasy lover and like all fantasies, I vanished before dawn.

Jane Harvey-Berrick

#6. You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.

Ann Richards

#7. It was nice to kill time. But the time buries us before... (On a beau tuer le temps, - Il nous enterre avant)

Charles De Leusse

#8. But he still thought it self-evident that one had to do what was right; he had never learned how people could want to do otherwise; he had learned only that they did.

Ayn Rand

#9. Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Marcel Proust