Scaramouche Quotes & Sayings

Why is it that when we have enough money, we worry about our health or lack of solid relationships?
When we have solid relationships, we worry about health or not having enough money.
When we have our health, we worry about relationships or lack of money.
How about we stop worrying so much! — Charles F. Glassman

I admit that it is audacious," said Scaramouche. "But at your time of life you should have learnt that in this world nothing succeeds like audacity. — Rafael Sabatini

The Crimson Pirate, The Mark of Zorro, Captain Blood, The Black Pirate, Adventures of Don Juan, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Sea Hawk, The Prisoner of Zenda, Scaramouche, — Cary Elwes

The act of choosing a value for yourself requires rejecting alternative values. If I choose to make my marriage the most important part of my life, that means I'm (probably) choosing not to make cocaine-fueled hooker orgies an important part of my life. If I'm choosing to judge myself based on my ability to have open and accepting friendships, that means I'm rejecting trashing my friends behind their backs. These are all healthy decisions, yet they require rejection at every turn. The point is this: we all must give a fuck about something, in order to value something. And to value something, we must reject what is not that something. To value X, we must reject non-X. That — Mark Manson

If you're going to fail ... FAIL FORWARD — Michael Jon Hand

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be. — Henry Ward Beecher

Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least they will lose something of their natural turpitude. — Lord Chesterfield

SCARAMOUCHE Rafael — Rafael Sabatini

Those who solely by good fortune become princes from being private citizens have little trouble in rising, but much in keeping atop; they have not any difficulties on the way up because they fly, but they have many when they reach the summit. — Niccolo Machiavelli

We are all, he says, the sport of destiny. Ah, but not quite. Destiny is an intelligent force, moving with purpose. — Rafael Sabatini

Cable and satellite businesses are competing against fixed-line telephone companies and wireless companies. — Jay Samit

You behold him at the age of four-and-twenty stuffed with learning enough to produce an intellectual indigestion in an ordinary mind. — Rafael Sabatini

Enemies." "What Christian resignation!" "As for hating you, of all people! Why ... I consider you adorable. I envy Leandre every day of my life. I have seriously thought of setting him to play Scaramouche, and playing lovers myself. — Rafael Sabatini

The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in the mind — Henry David Thoreau

After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like 'Le Boeuf sur le Toit' and 'La Cretion du Monde.' I especially enjoy his work for two pianos, 'Scaramouche.' — Dave Brubeck

I am afraid, monsieur, you will have to kill me first, and I have a prejudice against being killed before nine o'clock. — Rafael Sabatini

If every man who passed an unjust judgment on his fellow should be condemned, how many judges would be found so vain and foolish as to review and condemn their Maker's work? — Clarence Darrow

He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." (the novel Scaramouche) — Rafael Sabatini

As a woman who has some sort of power, you have to have a man that can take that. It's hard to find those men. — Jessica Simpson