Quotes by French Authors - Page 19

The best doctor is the one you run for and can't find.
Denis Diderot
When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.
Vauvenargues
No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
Michel de Montaigne
Physicians of the Utmost Fame were called at once but when they came they answered as they took their fees 'There is no cure for this disease.'
Hilaire Belloc
As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live a physician will be made fun of but he will be well paid.
Jean de La Bruyère
Symptoms then are in reality nothing but the cry from suffering organs.
Jean-Martin Charcot
The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.
Arthur Adamov
Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
André Gide
How many really capable men are children more than once during the day?
Napoléon Bonaparte
A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
Honoré de Balzac
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
Honoré de Balzac
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as if she weren't.
Sacha Guitry
Pains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That's what makes a marriage last - more than passion or even sex.
Simone Signoret
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon
It is easier to know mankind in general than man individually.
La Rochefoucauld
Men in general are but great great children.
Napoleon
A good memory is needed once we have lied.
Corneille
I was thinking of my patients and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate they were in despair.
Anaïs Nin
Of course fortune has its part in human affairs but conduct is really much more important.
Jeanne Detourbey
Luck is a word devoid of sense nothing can exist without a cause.
Voltaire
Though men pride themselves on their great actions often they are not the result of any great design but of chance.
François de La Rochefoucauld
The only victory over love is flight.
Napoleon
Love is often a fruit of marriage.
Molière
The reason why lovers and their mistresses never tire of being together is that they are always talking of themselves.
La Rochefoucauld
Young men wish: love money and health. One day they'll say: health money and love.
Paul Geraldy
Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.
Rémy de Gourmont
Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness compassion intelligence everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible the absolute the sky on fire inexhaustible springtime life after death and death itself transfigured into eternal life.
Albert Camus
The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom.
Antoine Bret
If we are to judge of love by its consequences it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
La Rochefoucauld
Love with men is not a sentiment but an idea.
Mme. de Girardin
There can be no peace of mind in love since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for further desires.
Marcel Proust
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
No love no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
François Mauriac
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Victor Hugo
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage then to their disadvantage.
Albert Camus
Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.
Franqois Mauriac
What we call love is the desire to awaken and to keep awake in another's body heart and mind the responsibility of flattering in our place the self of which we are not very certain.
Paul Geraldy
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
Maurice Chevalier
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne
In literature as in love we are astounded by what is chosen by others.
André Maurois
To be adult is to be alone (etre adulte c'est etre seul).
Jean Rostand
A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.
Albert Camus
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade: today it is the reverse.
Joseph Roux
When a man can observe himself suffering and is able later to describe what he's gone through it means he was born for literature.
Edouard Bourdet
Oh! Let us never never doubt What nobody is sure about.
Hilaire Belloc
The llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat with an indolent expression and an undulating throat like an unsuccessful literary man.
Hilaire Belloc
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
Stendhal
Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo
Love is above all the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh
In our life there is a single color as on an artist's palette which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Marc Chagall
Someday after we have mastered the winds the waves the tide and gravity we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world man will have discovered fire.
Teilhard de Chardin
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race.
Victor Hugo
What a grand thing to be loved! What a grander thing still to lovel
Victor Hugo
There is only one happiness in life to love and be loved.
George Sand
It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rest upon this foundation: that we experience Him in our lives as Will-to-love.
Albert Schweitzer
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory and in creative action that man finds his supreme joy.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
Laughing deeply is living deeply.
Milan Kundera
We have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems.
Christiane Collange
Joy is the most infallible sign of the Presence of God.
Teilhard de Chardin
We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.
La Rochefoucauld