A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
Quote by Moliere
Click on the picture of Moliere quote you want to see a larger version.
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
Click on the picture of Moliere quote you want to see a larger version.
Moliere Quotes
- Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
- A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
- The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
- We die only once, and for such a long time.
- The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
- A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
- Books and marriage go ill together.
- All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
- Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
- Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
Best Quotes
- Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.
- Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
- I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.
- I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
- Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
- The TV business is like the produce section of the market. Today everything is fresh and glistening and firm. And tomorrow, when they find a bruise on you, they toss you out.
- I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor.
- Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
- I run from Horatio Street down just past Battery Park City and back. It's amazing to run and see the Statue of Liberty and the ferries coming in. People think if you're not near Central Park, there's nowhere to go, but there's a whole ecosystem happening down here.
- War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.