Showing posts with label Blaise Pascal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blaise Pascal. Show all posts

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Quote (#491)

If there is no wind, row.
- Latin Proverb

Friendship is born at that moment when
one person says to another: "What! You,
too? Thought I was the only one."
- C.S. Lewis

"Love has reasons which
reason cannot understand."
- Blaise Pascal

"The last time I saw him he
was walking down lover's
lane holding his own hand."
- Fred Allen

"I don't want life to imitate
art. I want life to be art."
- Ernst Fischer

"Every charitable act is a
stepping stone toward heaven."
- Henry Ward Beecher

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Quotes

"The least movement is of importance to all nature.
The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."
- Blaise Pascal

"Nothing will work unless you do."
- Maya Angelou


"A wide screen just makes
a bad film twice as bad."
- Samuel Goldwyn

"I don't know the key to success, but the key
to failure is trying to please everybody."
- Bill Cosby

No one appreciates the very special genius
of your conversations as a dog does.
- Christopher Morley


Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints a
man should catch young and have done with, for when
it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
- PG Wodehouse

Sunday, January 04, 2009

Quotaria

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
- Elbert Hubbard

"Solitary trees, if they
grow at all, grow strong."
- Winston Churchill

"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center
is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."
- Blaise Pascal

"Things do not happen.
Things are made to happen."
- John F. Kennedy

"Rogues are preferable to imbeciles
because they sometimes take a rest."
- Alexandre Dumas

"The least of learning is
done in the classrooms."
- Thomas Merton