Celebres Philosophes Quotes & Sayings

When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it. — William Makepeace Thackeray

wholly satisfactory, — Elizabeth Peters

But I grew to love these spontaneous gatherings in shopping malls, university bookstores, and specialty bookshops that couldn't be replaced by the big chains, all the spaces with coffee, comfortable chairs, and the presence of books that allow people to browse and discover interests they didn't know they had. — Gloria Steinem

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. — Pierre Beaumarchais

Arab culture both in its classical expression and in the most influential aspect of its present-day expression is opposed in almost every particular to liberal culture — Abdallah Laroui

Beliefs are either the keys to your freedom,
Or they can also become the giant locks to the prison
That keeps you from achieving what you want. — Tony Robbins

I wasn't interested in fabricating things and altering what I did to make hit records. — Pat Benatar

Fame is fleeting. Sometimes people like you, sometimes they don't. Not all people are going to like you and you have to come to [terms] with that. — Patrick Dempsey

Listen carefully to what country people called mother wit. That in those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations. When — Maya Angelou

My dad's family is part British and Austrian, and my mother's family is from Goa, which is in the south of India. I looked different from everyone else, which now is such a blessing. It was harder at the beginning of my career. — Meaghan Rath

The end of despots is always odd?exhilarating to those who suffered their tyrannies, and to those who hold despotism in contempt, and anti-climatic at the same time, the discovery that these tyrants were petty, frightened men after all. — Fouad Ajami

Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions. — James Mill