2000+ Uniue Quotes & Sayings

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Honore de Balzac

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

Honore de Balzac

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Honore de Balzac

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Honore de Balzac

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

Honore de Balzac

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

Honore de Balzac

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Honore de Balzac

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

Honore de Balzac

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

Honore de Balzac

Love is the poetry of the senses.

Honore de Balzac

The more one judges, the less one loves.

Honore de Balzac

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

Honore de Balzac

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

Honore de Balzac

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

Honore de Balzac

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

Honore de Balzac

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

Honore de Balzac

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

Honore de Balzac

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

Honore de Balzac

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

Honore de Balzac

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

Honore de Balzac

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Honore de Balzac

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

Honore de Balzac

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

Honore de Balzac

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Honore de Balzac

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

Honore de Balzac

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

Honore de Balzac

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

Honore de Balzac

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

Honore de Balzac

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

Honore de Balzac

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

Honore de Balzac

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

Honore de Balzac

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Mark Twain

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

Mark Twain

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Mark Twain

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Mark Twain

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Mark Twain

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

Mark Twain

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.

Mark Twain

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Mark Twain

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Mark Twain

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Mark Twain

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Mark Twain

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

Mark Twain

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Mark Twain

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

Mark Twain

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain