Baptiste Quotes & Sayings

The celebrated Adam Smith was the first to point out the immense increase of production, and the superior perfection of products referable to this division of labour. — Jean-Baptiste Say

Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

The inner life is the whole man, and forms all the worth of man. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and the reasons for the gradual development and improvement of their organization. This antiquity will appear even greater when he realizes the length of time and the particular conditions which were necessary to bring all the living species into existence. This is particularly true since man is the latest result and present climax of this development, the ultimate limit of which, if it is ever reached, cannot be known. — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

The luxury of ostentation affords a much less substantial and solid gratification, than the luxury of comfort, if I may be allowed the expression. — Jean-Baptiste Say

The difficulty lies, not in finding a producer, but in finding a consumer. — Jean-Baptiste Say

What would people think of a tradesman, that was to give a ball in his shop, hire performers, and hand refreshments about, with a view to benefit his business? — Jean-Baptiste Say

How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy! ... He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts. — Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

Nothing is more dangerous in practice, than an obstinate, unbending adherence to a system, particularly in its application to the wants and errors of mankind. — Jean-Baptiste Say

With a series, you build the character as you go. When you've got a shorter project or a film, you know the overall arc from the beginning. — Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Like every man who appears at an epoch which is historical and rendered famous by his works, Jesus Christ has a history, a history which the church and the world possess, and which, surrounded by countless memorials, has at least the same authenticity as any other history formed in the same countries, amidst the same peoples and in the same times. As, then, if I would study the lives of Brutus and Cassius, I should calmly open Plutarch, I open the Gospel to study Jesus Christ, and I do so with the same composure. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

The manner in which things exist and take place, constitutes what is called the nature of things; and a careful observation of the nature of things is the sole foundation of all truth. — Jean-Baptiste Say

Time is short, your obligations are infinite. Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work of piety accomplished? — Jean Baptiste Massillon

Nothing wounds a friend like a want of confidence. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to be able to propagate it and get it recognized. — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

As to the lawful pleasures of the mind, the heart, or the senses, indulge in them with gratitude and moderation, drawing up sometimes in order to punish yourself, without waiting to be forced to do so by necessity. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

The great men of antiquity were poor. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

The thesis that the living creatures have always been composed different species was established in a time where no sufficient observations had been made and when science hardly existed. This thesis is denied every day by those who have made accurate observations, who have long time observed nature and who have had the benefit from studying our musei's large and rich collections. — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

The United States will have the honour of proving experimentally, that true policy goes hand in hand with moderation and humanity. — Jean-Baptiste Say

The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

A nation or an individual, will do wisely to direct consumption chiefly to those articles, that are longest time in wearing out, and the most frequently in use. — Jean-Baptiste Say

Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity. — Jean Baptiste Massillon

I love the mountains, the light. I'm a real light junkie. — Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Jean-Baptiste Mondino: "She's John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the same time". — Madonna Ciccone

I'm not a rock star, I'm not Seane Corne or Shiva Rea or Rodney Yee or Baron (Baptiste) or John Friend, and thank God, because there's just too much risk of getting hit by flying tomatoes if you stick out that much. — Beryl Bender Birch

Be guided by feelings alone. Abandon yourself to your first impression. If you really have been touched, you will convey to others the sincerity of your emotion. — Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

In chemistry, our theories are crutches; to show that they are valid, they must be used to walk ... A theory established with the help of twenty facts must explain thirty, and lead to the discovery of ten more. — Jean-Baptiste Dumas

Listen to the advice of others, but follow only what you understand and can unite in your own feeling. Be firm, be meek, but follow your own convictions. It is better to be nothing than an echo of other painters. — Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

But, is it possible for princes and ministers to be enlightened, when private individuals are not so? — Jean-Baptiste Say

The love of domination never attains more than a factitious elevation, that is sure to make enemies of all its neighbours. — Jean-Baptiste Say

The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art. — Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Truth is no road to fortune. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

It should be remembered that the foundation of the social contract is property; and its first condition, that every one should be maintained in the peaceful possession of what belongs to him. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

As I reach the grand foyer, I see Jean-Baptiste and Gaspard step through the front door.
"You're here!" I cry.
"I had planned on taking a couple more hours to rest up," Gaspard explains with a grin, "however, we received this almost indecipherable text message on our mobile telephone ... "
Jean-Baptiste holds up his cell phone like it's a piece of alien machinery. "And I quote, 'Dudes, it's going down now. Get your sorry asses over here stat.' With such an eloquent request, how could we resist?" he remarks drily. But there is a ghost of a smile at the edge of his lips, and I know that he and Gaspard wouldn't miss this for anything in the world. — Amy Plum

And let no government imagine, that, to strip them of the power of defrauding their subjects, is to deprive them of a valuable privilege. A system of swindling can never be long lived, and must infallibly in the end produce much more loss than profit. — Jean-Baptiste Say

Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws up where obedience degenerates into guilty cowardice. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

I see myself as British, and I want to be celebrated by Britain. — Marianne Jean-Baptiste

We attract hearts by the qualities we display; we retain them by he qualities we possess. — Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard

The universe shows us the life of God, or rather it is in itself the life of God. We behold in it his permanent action, the scene upon which his power is exercised, and in which all his attributes are reflected. God is not out of the universe any more than the universe is out of God. God is the principle, the universe is the consequence, but a necessary consequence, without which the principle would be inert, unfruitful, impossible to conceive. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

The wants of mankind are supplied and satisfied out of the gross values produced and created, and not out of the net values only. — Jean-Baptiste Say

I am never in a hurry to reach details. First and above all I am interested in the large masses and the general character of a picture; when these are well established, then I try for subtleties of form and color. I rework the painting constantly and freely, and without any systematic method. — Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike. — Jean-Baptiste Say

When a king creates an office, Providence creates immediately a fool to buy it. — Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Wherefore it is impossible to succeed in comparing wealth of different eras or different nations. This, in political economy, like squaring the circle in mathematics, is impracticable, for want of a common mean or measure to go by. — Jean-Baptiste Say

What can we expect from nations still less advanced in civilization than the Greeks? — Jean-Baptiste Say

Youth is life's beautiful moment. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one. — Jean-Baptiste De La Salle

You can be sure that most of the high positions in the country would be empty if one were admitted only after an examination as severe as the one we painters must pass. — Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines. — Jean Baptiste Massillon

If my time has come I shall have nothing to complain of. For fifty-tree years I have been painting; so I have been able to devote myself entirely to what I loved best in the world. I had never suffered poverty; I had good parents and excellent friends; I can only thank God. — Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Do with me, in me, and by me all that Thou wilt without resistance from me, in time and in eternity. — Jean Baptiste Saint-Jure

Nothing is achieved without solitude. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

For Christians, the first of books is the Gospel and the Rosary is actually the abridgement of the Gospel. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Charity is that sweet-smelling savor of Jesus Christ, which vanishes and is extinguished from the moment that it is exposed. — Jean Baptiste Massillon

Whence it is evident that the remedy must be adapted to the particular cause of the mischief; consequently, the cause must be ascertained, before the remedy is devised. — Jean-Baptiste Say

Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor. — Jean-Baptiste Say

You know, a landscape painter's day is delightful. You get up early, at three o'clock in the morning, before sunrise; you go and sit under a tree; you watch and wait. At first there is nothing much to be seen. Nature looks like a whitish canvas with a few broad outlines faintly sketched in; all is misty, everything quivers in the cool dawn breeze. The sky lights up. The sun has not yet burst through the gauze veil that hides the meadow, the little valley, the hill on the horizon ... Ah, a first ray of sunshine! — Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Don't you ever wonder if this life has just gotten old and stale? When suddenly faced with my possible demise, I can't think of one thing I would miss, except you.
- Vampire, Michel Baptiste — Denise K. Rago

It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption. — Jean-Baptiste Say

Valuation is vague and arbitrary, when there is no assurance that it will be generally acquiesced in by others. — Jean-Baptiste Say

It is not a slight thing, gentlemen, to force a man to say what he is, or what he believes himself to be; for that supreme word of man, that single expression which he utters of and upon himself is decisive. It lays down the basis upon which all judgment of him is to be formed. From that moment all the acts of his life must correspond to the answer given by him. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Still how unenlightened and ignorant are the very nations we term civilized! — Jean-Baptiste Say

The ancients, by their system of colonization, made themselves friends all over the known world; the moderns have sought to make subjects, and therefore have made enemies. — Jean-Baptiste Say

Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

A really sublime moment is that when the last ray of light breaks in upon the soul, and marshals into a single group all the scattered disconnected truths there. There is such a vast difference between the moment which follows, and the moment which precedes this one, between what we were before, and what we are after, that the word grace has been invented to convey the idea of this magic stroke, of this light from on high. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

One makes use of pigments, but one paints with one's feelings. — Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

The mind sees, the will commands, the man acts. What is it then to act? To act is to produce something. If you have produced nothing
if no result has been the fruit of your will, you have done nothing. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

I have made no distinction between the circulation of goods and of money, because there really is none. — Jean-Baptiste Say

What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated. — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

In inorganic chemistry the radicals are simple; in organic chemistry they are compounds - that is the sole difference. — Jean-Baptiste Dumas

But what must be the character of that policy, which aims at national prosperity through the impoverishment of a large proportion of the home producers, with a view to supply foreigners at a cheaper rate, and give them all the benifet of the national privation and self denial? — Jean-Baptiste Say

Some writers maintain arithmetic to be only the only sure guide in political economy; for my part, I see so many detestable systems built upon arithmetical statements, that I am rather inclined to regard that science as the instrument of national calamity. — Jean-Baptiste Say

True charity is liable to excesses and transports. — Jean Baptiste Massillon

I have seen many phases of life; I have moved in imperial circles, I have been a Minister of State; but if I had to live my life again, I would always remain in my laboratory, for the greatest joy of my life has been to accomplish original scientific work, and, next to that, to lecture to a set of intelligent students. — Jean-Baptiste Dumas

I love a bit of passion. — Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Do console your poor friend, who is so troubled to see his paintings so miserable, so sad, next to the radiant nature he has before his eyes! — Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

A descendent of Basque ranchers, the mayor came from the small circle of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century European immigrants who had been his father's oldest customers and friends. Perhaps Malburg told Jim the story of how Vernon got its start in 1905, when John Baptiste Leonis, a French Basque hog rancher, persuaded the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads to extend tracks to his city to attract new factories, their preferred freight-hauling customers. — Victor Valle

The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Mr. Baptiste, I love Sid with all that I am and I would greatly treasure the opportunity to spend the rest of our lives showing her just how much she means to me. — M. Yvonne Jones

A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth's atmosphere, of the characteristics and continual changes of the earth's external crust, and finally of the origin and development of living organisms. These considerations naturally divide the physics of the earth into three essential parts, the first being a theory of the atmosphere, or Meteorology, the second, a theory of the earth's external crust, or Hydrogeology, and the third, a theory of living organisms, or Biology. — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error. — Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

One product is always ultimately bought with another, even when paid for in the first instance with money. — Jean-Baptiste Say

Prophecy, that universal and perpetual torch by which faith is enlightened. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Political economy has only become a science since it has been confined to the results of inductive investigation. — Jean-Baptiste Say

You have thoughts, but you are not your thoughts - and they definitely don't have to run the show. You — Baron Baptiste

When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour. — Jean-Baptiste Say

Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture. — Jean-Baptiste De La Salle

The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

A much larger value is consumed in lettuces than in pineapples,throughout Europe at large; and the superb shawls of Cachemere are, in France, a very poor object in trade, in comparison with the plain cotton goods of Rouen. — Jean-Baptiste Say

When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman? — Jean-Baptiste Say

The first step to be taken, is to study carefully the fundamental phenomenon above described, and to examine all the various circumstances under which it presents itself. — Jean-Baptiste Biot

I want to work, so I'm going where the work is. — Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Since God is the end of man, since he has created us to be perfect and happy in him, it is manifest that if the designs of creation have not here below been entirely frustrated, there should be found men who tend to their end in seeking and loving God. And nevertheless, because of human liberty, there should also be found other men who neglect God, their principle and their end, and yield to the seduction of created things. Such indeed is the spectacle which the history of the world unceasingly presents to us. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Yes, great God, these torrents of tears which flow down from my eyes announce thy divine presence in my soul. This heart hitherto so dry, so arid, so hard; this rock which thou hast struck a second time, will not resist thee any longer, for out of it there now gushes healthful waters in abundance. The selfsame voice of God which overturns the mountains, thunders, lightens, and divides the heaven above, now commands the clouds to pour forth showers of blessings, changing the desert of his soul into a field producing a hundredfold; that voice I hear. — Jean Baptiste Massillon

In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds down, and the law which liberates. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire