Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680

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My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.

Jim Evans

WorkSummerHimCarpenterPlaying

I like shaped things. I like shape in things, and I do overshape things, it's true.

Jim Crace

TrueShapeThingsLikeShaped

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Robert Louis Stevenson

QuietGoMindsClockOwnFortune

To my mind, a journalist needs to espouse objectivity and distance, while a writer practises an art that is more free.

Amitava Kumar

ArtMindFreeDistanceMoreWriter

I'm more interested in life than life-style. Life-style means you have to drive a certain car.

Stephanie Zimbalist

LifeCarDriveYouMoreMeans

Even when the band got back together in 2008, New Kids fans knew I was gay. Everyone did.

Jonathan Knight

TogetherBackGayNewBandEveryone

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Douglas MacArthur

WarWinWillWithoutEnterAny

The whole romanticized 'sad clown' thing, we gotta get rid of that. That has to go! That's just getting sick people to voluntarily stay sicker and sadder than they have to be.

Chris Gethard

SadPeopleSickGoClownStay

It's time to replace career politicians with citizen's politicians. It's time to elect people who are going to stand up to the Washington elite and stand up to a White House and Congress hell-bent on ramming socialism down our throat.

Christine O'Donnell

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For a long time, I have been making many predictions, far in advance, of events since come to pass, naming the particular locality. I acknowledge all to have been accomplished through divine power and inspiration.

Nostradamus

PowerTimeLongLong TimeEvents

I don't want to be a big star. I just want to get my message across.

Nneka

WantBigStarGetJustMessage

I will build on some of the things Governor Kasich has done where I think he has been effective for Ohioans, and I think there's number of areas where he has been.

Richard Cordray

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