Michel de Montaigne Quotes

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

Michel de Montaigne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChildrenPlayGamesPlayingSeen

The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.

Steven Rattner

HealthRetirementInsuranceMortgage

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

Steven Wright

PowerPeopleYesterdayTrappedStore

I work because I think that I wouldn't feel good about myself unless I was contributing.

Lisa Marie Presley

WorkGoodMyselfFeel GoodThink

Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.

Jayne Anne Phillips

CharacterWordsVoiceStory

My mother is not a woman of ordinary culture. She knows literature and speaks Spanish better than I do. She even corrected my poems and gave me advice when I was studying rhetoric.

Jose Rizal

MotherCultureWomanMeBetterShe

It is weird. People will say, 'Oh my God, I love you.' And I'll say, 'Oh, that's so sweet. Thank you.' And the people who are walking around with me for the first time will say, 'I don't understand what happened. Somebody just told you they love you. I don't even understand what that means.'

Cheryl Hines

LoveGodI Love YouTimePeopleMe

I am a struggling writer. A middle-aged man with two little kids and I'm just trying to earn a living. So buy this book - or my kids will have to go to foster care.

Christopher Darden

ManI AmBookCareTryingLiving

Where the assets of Facebook were hype, we have real assets.

Aliko Dangote

RealHypeFacebookWhereAssets

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

Philip Larkin

MeDeprivationWereWordsworth

We've built, drilled, and shipped indiscriminately across our oceans, with little consideration for the natural environment that is critical to the health of many of our other ocean uses, like food and recreation.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

HealthFoodOceanEnvironmentLittle

My father used to be away for months at a time, and he'd never leave any money for food, so my brother and I had to go out and nick it.

Norman Wisdom

FatherTimeFoodMoneyBrotherGo

Let's stop this American downward spiral.

Rick Perry

AmericanStopSpiralDownward

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