Vauban Quotes & Sayings

Budget: a way of going broke methodically — Groucho Marx

It is impossible to study the works of the great mathematicians, or even those of the lesser, without noticing and distinguishing two opposite tendencies, or rather two entirely different kinds of minds. The one sort are above all preoccupied with logic; to read their works, one is tempted to believe they have advanced only step by step, after the manner of a Vauban who pushes on his trenches against the place besieged, leaving nothing to chance. The other sort are guided by intuition and at the first stroke make quick but sometimes precarious conquests, like bold cavalrymen of the advance guard.
[1913, p210] — Henri Poincare

to Billionaires' Quay in Port Vauban for this impromptu meeting — Camille Aubray

I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat. — Ice Cube

Every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities. — Gregory David Roberts

Make the best o' things the way you find 'em.. — Mark Twain

Your breaking point will be a bloody refuge, not a clean slate. — Christina Hopp

You both make each other want to be better people, and that's a feckin' rare thing. Far too many couples drown each other in their own selfishness these days. — R.J. Prescott