Famous Quotes Name V

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labour.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls "grace" from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call "rigtheousness."

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness.

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Should we continue to look upwards Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished The ideal is terrifying to behold, lost as it is in the depths, small, isolated, a pin-point, brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds. (Les Miserables

At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry. (Les Miserables

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.

From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.

Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars-all the beauties of creation.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil. To think is to do.

So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.

People do not lack strength, they lack will.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.

Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

Popularity It is glory's small change.

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

What a grand thing, to be loved What a grander thing still, to love