Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
Quote by Michel De Montaigne
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Michel De Montaigne Quotes
- Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
- There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
- For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
- There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
- No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
- I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
- Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
- How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
- If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
- I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
Best Quotes
- By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had ever been done before, and it was done spit spot with very little national debate.
- In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.
- The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.
- Don't waste your time trying to fit in because at the end of the day there's nothing beautiful about being someone else. Always remember that one day someone is going to notice the beauty of being You.
- When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
- I don't mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing 'Riding in Cars With Boys,' I wouldn't smile at anybody, because my character, Bev, was angry at the world. I'm the opposite. Inside my head I'd be like, God, I'll explain to you at the end of shooting that I'm not this person.
- I have to live with both my selves as best I may.
- Bravery never goes out of fashion.
- I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
- If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.