Famous Patois Quotes & Sayings

If you believe in God you are at no disadvantage in this life, and at considerable advantage in the next. If you do not believe, but find in the next that there was a next, you are most unfortunate! — Blaise Pascal

Summer fell upon Paris, with everyone still intently following his own subterranean course of passion or habit and looking up like a startled creature of the night at the blazing June sun. Now, all of a sudden, there was an impelling necessity to go away, to give a continuation or a meaning to the winter that had just gone by. — Francoise Sagan

The Imperial throne was occupied by Frederic III, who had been rightly named the Peaceful, not for the reason that he had always maintained peace, but because, having constantly been beaten, he had always been forced to make it. — Alexandre Dumas

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing. - Voltaire — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Persistent inequality costs the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars a year, undermining our global competitiveness, our democracy, and our ideals as a nation. — Wendy Kopp

Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters, — Lin Yutang

She was lost in her longing to understand. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Well, be careful," she said, her words deliberate. She quickly twisted her head, as if making certain no one was behind her. When she turned back around, her green eyes were hard and filled with hate. "Because wouldn't it be terrible if you slipped and hurt yourself? — Kate White

If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul. — Count Basie

God is dead but my hair is perfect. — Bernard-Henri Levy

India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire. — Mark Twain