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7190 quotesThere are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
Crime and Criminals
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.
Wrong
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
Chastity
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
Imitation
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
Innocence
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
Pettiness
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.
Appearance
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
Happiness
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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We are never so ridiculous by the qualities we have, as by those we affect to have.
Quality
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
Advice
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
Behavior
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.
Advice
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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We would rather speak badly of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
Egotism
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
Character
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.
Love
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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The first day, a guest; the second, a burden; the third, a pest.
Guests
Edouard R. Laboulaye
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For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.
Elegance
Christian Lacroix
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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.
Children
Dr. Jess Lair
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Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.
Defeat
Greg Lake
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Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.
Planning
Alan Lakein
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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?
Time and Time Management
Alan Lakein
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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
Cities and City Life
Alphonse De Lamartine
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Passion
Alphonse De Lamartine
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There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
Achievement
Alphonse De Lamartine
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In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
Science and Scientists
Charles Lamb
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun