Pagnol Marcel Quotes & Sayings

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself. — Marcel Pagnol

We live in the richest country in the world. There's plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want. And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle - the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start? There are corporations worth billions of dollars - and hundreds of thousands of people who don't get to eat. — Carson McCullers

Honor is like a match, you can only use it once. — Marcel Pagnol

I gave in to life. I was not defeated but outplayed. — Ivo Andric

Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sorrow. — Marcel Pagnol

Damyata datta dayadhvam, Be self-controlled, give, be compassionate. — Anonymous

I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death. — Mitch Albom

Me and Mama never did like the smell of cigarettes but after Daddy died, sometimes we would light one up and put it in his old ashtray. Today I stayed behind the man at Fletcher's and waited a little while in the cloud of smoke. — Sandi Morgan Denkers

But the world is what it is and won't be bargained with. — Robert Charles Wilson

You're preaching to the choir. — John Gorman

You are made
Rather to wonder at the things you hear
Than to work any. — William Shakespeare

A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper. — Marcel Pagnol

It's funny - some producers ask me, 'Man, how do you work on a Bieber record? That would kill my career.' I can work on any record there is as long as they are good records and you're pushing things forward. — Diplo

We ... have to open our mouths and bear testimony. — Henry B. Eyring

In searching for a rationale to go to war, Bush settled on the notion of Saddam as an incarnation of evil, basically, and convinced himself that Saddam was fundamentally Adolf Hitler reborn. I think his feelings towards Saddam were in fact quite genuine and quite legitimately hostile. He was not play acting. — Rick Atkinson

I don't want your apology. I want your obedience. — Tara Sue Me

In my school, no consideration is given to anything unreasonable; the heart of the matter is to use the power of the knowledge of martial arts to gain victory any way you can. — Miyamoto Musashi

That is life, isn't it? Fate. Luck. Chance. A long series of what-if's that lead from one moment to the next, time never pausing for you to catch your breath, to make sense of the cards that have been handed to you. And all you can do is play your cards and hope for the best, because in the end, it all comes back to those three basics.
Fate. Luck. Chance. — Kelseyleigh Reber

Well, I think in trying to make life seem real enough that one is moved to do something about the more atrocious things. By going really far afield into a completely fake world, maybe there's a chance to make things resonant somehow - or in this case, truly terrifying. To make it as bad as the real stuff that's happening. — Jenny Holzer

It's better to choose the culprits than to seek them out. — Marcel Pagnol

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. — Marcel Pagnol

One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb. — Marcel Pagnol