Alphonse Quotes & Sayings

I got to a crossroads in my life where basically I was asked to choose between staying at home and being with them, or being in a band and doing what I want to do. — Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

The People will not allow themselves to be changed into hogs by the Circes of Atheism. Their souls will flash indignation against their transformers. A day will come when they will see that they are impoverished under the pretext of being enriched; that, when they are robbed of their souls and of God, both their titles to liberty are stolen from them. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Yet, in these autumn days when Nature expires, Here, in these veiled scenes, I find more attractions; It is a friend's sad goodbye; it is the last smile From lips that death is going to close forever! — Alphonse De Lamartine

History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive. — Alphonse De Lamartine

We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans ; we have one heart or we don't have any. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses. — Alphonse Karr

Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals some of these miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it. — Alphonse De Lamartine

I think that's an interesting point of being a songwriter, is to write songs that make people think. — Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848) — Alphonse De Lamartine

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are. — Alphonse Karr

It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Women's glances express what they dare not speak. — Alphonse Karr

I do not believe in any wise man until I have heard him say << I doubt it>> three times and << I don't know >> two times. — Alphonse Karr

Utopias are often just premature truths. — Alphonse De Lamartine

People when they're growing up they just want to fit in, there are a lot of social pressures on young people today to kind of have it all figured out and know what they want to do, know who they are straight away and I've always tried to embrace that sense of pressure, but I've got people around me that do as well. — Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

I am persuaded that if the brutes even
if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at the bottom of their nature, their instincts, their sensations, their obtuse intelligence, assisted by organs less perfect than ours, there is a clouded, secret sentiment of this existence of a superior and primordial Being, from whom all emanates, and to whom all returns. — Alphonse De Lamartine

I think every touring musician sacrifices aspects of their life to do it. — Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

Riza: Without his Alchemy he's just ...
Jean: A little brat who swears a lot
Maes: An arrogant pipsqueak
Roy: Useless. Just useless
Alphonse: Sorry big brother, I don't know how to add to that ...
Ed *starts to cry*: YOU'RE ALL PICKING ON ME!!! — Hiromu Arakawa

Music is another planet. — Alphonse Daudet

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Art exists only to communicate a spiritual message — Alphonse Mucha

Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington
pure, unselfish, symmetrical; among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc
romantic, devoted, marvelous. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable; they are of instinct and not of reason. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Was in this way that the people of antiquity, when they had raised a temple on the site of one which had been torn down, always took care to introduce into the new building some of the materials, or at least a column, of the old one, in order to preserve something of the old and sacred in the modern, and in order that the souvenir, crude and worn, should have its worship and its influence over the heart, even among the master-pieces of the new sanctuary. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end. — Alphonse Karr

There is often seen this anomaly in women, especially in those of childish natures,
that they possess at once great promptness and unskilfulness in falsehood. — Alphonse Daudet

When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Too much I've seen, and felt, and lov'd in life, Living I come to seek Lethaean calm; Let me, fair scenes! forget all worldly strife, Oblivion solely is my bosom's balm. — Alphonse De Lamartine

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Were passing by. Once I heard him making fun of Jules. Jules was walking down the street carrying a lamp in his hand that he'd obviously just pulled out of some garbage heap. "Look at the garbage picker man!" Alphonse said. "That motherfucker is sad. He tried to sell me a comforter once! I said get the hell away from me. He's out all night looking for rags and bones. What year we living in, man? Get a real job, motherfucker." Jules couldn't stand Alphonse either. He said Alphonse was a pimp. I didn't know what a pimp did exactly. I was almost certain that it meant he had prostitutes working for him, but I wasn't sure. I told a kid at school that I knew a pimp and he said, "Bullshit. It's not fucking possible. You're making it up." So I guessed I'd made a mistake. Or maybe the word "pimp" had two different meanings. I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING to make older guys want to treat me like I was one of them, — Heather O'Neill

Mystery hovers over all things here below. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. — Alphonse Karr

Flowing water is at once a picture and a music, which causes to flow at the same time from my brain, like a limpid and murmuring rivulet, sweet thoughts, charming reveries, and melancholy remembrances. — Alphonse Karr

Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one. — Alphonse Karr

Come, Victor; not brooding thoughts of vengeance against the assassin, but with feelings of peace and gentleness, that will heal, instead of festering, the wounds of our minds. Enter the house of mourning, my friend, but with kindness and affection for those who love you, and not with hatred for your enemies. Alphonse Frankenstein — Mary Shelley

Soul of the universe, Sire, God, Creator, Lord, I believe in Thee, 'neath all these names: And without having need to hear thy word, In the sky's brow my glorious creed I trace. — Alphonse De Lamartine

History teaches everything, even the future. — Alphonse De Lamartine

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers. — Alphonse Karr

Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Good manners require space and time. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall not all Time be? In that calm breast whereto our souls are cleaving Shall we not find our loved ones beyond grieving About the hearth-stone of Eternity? — Alphonse De Lamartine

Kindness is virtue itself. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated — Alphonse De Lamartine

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs. — Alphonse De Lamartine

The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral. — Alphonse Karr

Unanimity is the mistress of strength. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. — Alphonse De Lamartine

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues. — Alphonse De Lamartine

God - but a word invoked to explain the world. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin. — Alphonse Karr

Argument should be polite as well as logical. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable. — Alphonse Karr

Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Void of freedom, what would virtue be? — Alphonse De Lamartine

I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth. — Alphonse De Lamartine

There is a woman at the begining of all great things. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Ink is the transcript of thought. — Alphonse De Lamartine

All nature is the temple; earth the altar. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Modesty and dew love the shade. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine. — Alphonse De Lamartine

No fair, sky. I'm the one who feels like crying. — Hiromu Arakawa

True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else. — Alphonse Karr

I say to this night: "Pass more slowly"; and the dawn will come to dispel the night. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others. — Alphonse Karr

The more the change, the more it is the same thing. — Alphonse Karr

I might take what I do very seriously, but at least I'm doing something, rather than sitting on my arse and being no-one. — Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked. — Alphonse Karr

The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty. — Alphonse Karr

Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days! — Alphonse De Lamartine

He, who can create, abhors destruction. — Alphonse De Lamartine

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. — Alphonse De Lamartine

If the grandeur of the aim, the smallness of the means, the immensity of the result are the three measures of a man's genius, who would dare humanly compare a great man of modern history with Muhammad? — Alphonse De Lamartine

Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. — Alphonse De Lamartine

I've sacrificed lots of aspects of my personal life to do what I do. — Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

The more one gets to know of men, the more one values dogs. — Alphonse Toussenel

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children. — Alphonse Daudet

In the tropical and subtropical regions, endemic malaria takes first place almost everywhere among the causes of morbidity and mortality, and it constitutes the principal obstacle to the acclimatization of Europeans in these regions. — Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

The most effective coquetry is innocence. — Alphonse De Lamartine

People can get blinded by a sense of being comfortable or feeling secure, but that's quite a cynical point of view. — Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses. — Alphonse Karr

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul. — Alphonse De Lamartine

A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked. — Alphonse Karr

all nature is at war — Alphonse Pyrame De Candolle

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius. — Alphonse De Lamartine