Top 36 Quotes About Beaumarchais: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Beaumarchais

#1. The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.

Gary Wolf

#2. Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#3. I actually feel about 15 percent peaceful, which is a huge improvement over my normal 5 percent.

Kirstin Cronn-Mills

#4. Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#5. I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#6. As the Greeks saw it, to be a man was to be defined by your ability to exert power in a world articulated through transcendent forces ultimately beyond human control. The apparent futility of this perspective was outweighed by the nobility that came with the struggle.

Thomas Van Nortwick

#7. The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#8. Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#9. The struggle for existence is a struggle 'for' something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.

Viktor E. Frankl

#10. We sense that 'normal' isn't coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.

Charles Eisenstein

#11. These days what's not worth saying gets set to music.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#12. The simple fact is that evil preys on good, and today, good had a bad day. Which brings with it an acceptance of the other side of that argument, that tomorrow might be evil's turn for some rain. And that's called hope.

Cody McFadyen

#13. Can love and peace live in the same heart? Youth is unhappy because it is faced with this terrible choice; love without peace, or peace without love.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#14. Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#15. I would rather worry without need than live without heed.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#16. If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#17. If (environmentalists) want to continue to beat those drums to solicit money from concerned soccer moms, they can do that. The reality on the ground is things are better as a result of Gale Norton's tenure.

Christopher West

#18. Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#19. In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.

Horace

#20. I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold all the cards, since that's the only way you know how to play; but I refuse to swallow your disrespect.

Pierre Beaumarchais