Nicolas Chamfort Quotes

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

Nicolas Chamfort

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: April 6, 1741 - April 13, 1794

Topics

BestMenEatingEndChooseFirst

You can research until you're falling asleep, but that still doesn't mean you're really fluent in the material.

Jennifer Egan

ResearchYouMeanFallingStill

My body parts are all I have left now that are only mine - the world owns everything else.

Megan Fox

WorldBodyNowEverythingLeftMine

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

John Mortimer

WorthThreeYearsPleasureJust

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.

Robert Mondavi

LifeArtFoodWineYouBack

I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography.

John Sexton

LifeLoveMy LifePhotographyStill

You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days.

Michel Patini

YouKnowThreeViceDaysRole

Climate change is the 800-pound gorilla in the living room that the media dances around. But in the scientific community, it's a settled question: 95 percent of scientists believe this is happening with 100 percent confidence temperatures are rising.

Michio Kaku

ChangeConfidenceCommunityBelieve

My feeling is that the English are naturally anti-Semitic.

Miriam Margolyes

FeelingEnglishAnti-Semitic

Americans are rightly concerned about the security and the integrity of the nation's borders because the system is broken. Some are concerned about the possibility of terrorists crossing our borders and coming into our cities.

Chris Cannon

IntegrityBrokenSecurityBorders

Spatial racism, the erasure of black faces in a predominantly white city, is in full effect in both Crown Heights and Center City Philadelphia. This racism demands that bodies that don't conform to a mandated 'white' status quo can be redlined out of a space.

Anthea Butler

RacismSpaceCityBlackCrownWhite

I am keenly aware that the wealth and power of the European nations are the result not only of their having ships and powerful guns, strong fortresses and formidable troops but also because their people can fully employ their talents, their land can be fully utilized, their natural resources can be fully tapped, and their goods can freely flow.

Sun Yat-sen

PowerI AmPeopleStrongPowerful

Here's the thing about hair; I think most people think that I have Lego hair, like I can just take it on and off in one piece, and that's not quite the case - although pretty close.

Pete Wentz

PeopleHairThinkI CanLegoPretty

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