| "L'amour vient de l'aveuglement, l'amitie de la connaissance. (Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.)" »Comte DeBussy-Rabutin |
| "La politique est l'art d'empcher les gens de se mler de ce qui les regarde. (Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business." »Paul Valery |
| "Dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. (In this country England it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. from Candide)" »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "I only know two pieces one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't." »Victor Borge |
| "Those whom fortune has never favoured are more joyful than those whom she has deserted. - De Tranquillitate Animi" »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "Todos Somos Unos Hijos De La Verga" »Rubenacres & Allenacres |
| "A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled." »Sir Barnett Cocks |
| "English is a funny language..... De(a)dication can lead you to all the success in Life" »Siddharth Astir |
| "The experience of this sweet life. L'esperienza de questa dolce vita." »Dante Alighieri |
| "There is nothing like a coup de foudre and absorption in family responsibility for maturing the male and pulling his scattered wits together." »Sir V Pritchett |
| "The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success. - De Tranquillitate Animi" »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "Porque el miedo, sin ser Dios, suele hacer algo de nada. (Fear can, though it is not God, create something from nothing.)" »Caspar de Aguilar |
| "Ama me fideliter Fidem meam noto De corde totaliter Et ex mente tota, Sum presentialiter Absens in remota." »Anonymous |
| "Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground." »Zora Neale Hurston |
| "All my pupils are the crme de la crme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life." »Muriel Spark |
| "I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.'" »Igor Stravinsky |
| "Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon.N.B. Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an ivory tower to work without the influences of man and desire." »Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve |
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