Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Michel de Montaigne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: February 28, 1533 - September 13, 1592

Topics

MarriageBirdsInsideOutsideCage

If you rank the top 50 one-day moves in the S&P 500, a fair number of those happened within the last five or 10 years. That tells you that we're in a different, riskier market now.

Andrew Lo

YouNowFairTopYearsWithin

In a Western, you talk more with your eyes and your actions than you do with big speeches. I love that.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

LoveEyesYouTalkMoreBig

Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.

Michael Faraday

WaterMeViewFeelingsWonderNew

Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians.

John Shimkus

RestBordersSingleWithinEmpire

I won't say I'm analog. I'm not like Jack White. I'm more like 1991.

Shooter Jennings

WhiteSayMoreLikeAnalogJack

It is far easier and more effective - and not just in terms of cost - to prevent conventional conflicts than to intervene after an eruption of violence.

Miroslav Lajcak

ViolenceMoreCostJustFarEasier

Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?

Jean Anouilh

LifeYouFabulousAlmostHappens

My favorite part of any project is the preparation. It's where you get to meet the people, the experts.

Jason Clarke

PreparationPeopleYouMeetProject

Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience where a record or a recording has kept you company when no one else is around. And I think that is what I'm hoping that people get out of my music.

Conor Oberst

CommunicationMusicArtExperience

If they let people go fight jiu-jitsu tournaments, they can't stop me going to fight a boxing fight.

Conor McGregor

FightPeopleMeStopGoBoxing

Pennsylvania couldn't be prouder of our native son, Joe Biden from Scranton. No one knows us better than Joe.

Bob Casey, Jr.

SonBetterUsKnowsThanOur

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

Plato

SuccessManPracticeArtsCannot

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