Procope A Paris Quotes & Sayings

Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions — Baron De Montesquieu

I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements. — P. J. O'Rourke

1. Make the paragraph the unit of composition: one paragraph to each topic. — William Strunk Jr.

And I just know that this memory will be forever burned into my brain, because this kind of magic - the kind that can't be conjured with a spell, where everything is just right, and all your problems vanish for three perfect minutes - doesn't happen everyday. — Michelle Krys

I always wanted to be famous because I thought that if I couldn't be good [at something], I'd be famous. I was never really good. I was just something different and I got to be famous for being different. — Cher

Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact — Albert Bandura

I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love. — Edna O'Brien

Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community. — Malcolm Gladwell

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a sacred Yes. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them. — John Mason Brown

The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden. — Joseph Glanvill

We all tell little lies about ourselves, Our past, our presents. We think some of them are minuscule, unimportant, And others, large and incriminating. But they are the same. Only God Has enough of the story to judge our souls. — Sarah McCoy

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. — Marie Curie

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins. — Lao-Tzu

The White House announced plans to begin normalizing relations with Cuba - this as we're awkwardizing relations with Russia. — Craig Ferguson