Anatole France Quotes - Page 2

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

Intelligent women always marry fools

I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.

We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.

A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.

What we call happiness is what we do not know.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.

The impotence of God is infinite.

The best sentence? The shortest.

The future is a convenient place for dreams.

Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.

It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.