Bertille Antoine Quotes

Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the astronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning. The ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

He who would travel happy must travel lite. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

...the lighthouse, as a symbol, made no sense. Someone had declared it a Christian beacon of some sort, but a lighthouse wasn't something that led you to a safe harbor, a lighthouse was something that you avoided at all costs, a lighthouse was something you stayed away from lest you and your ship be dashed on the rocks. The most perverse message a lighthouse could ever deliver is come here and be saved. ~ Antoine Wilson

One sees clearly only with the heart, anything that is essential is invisible to the eye.- The Little Prince ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Society is purely and solely a continual series of exchanges ... And the greatest eulogy we can give it, for exchange is an admirable transaction, in which two contracting parties always both gain; consequently, society is an uninterrupted succession of advantages, unceasingly renewed for all its members. ~ Antoine Destutt De Tracy

Grown-ups love figures ... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

In silence alone does a man's truth bind itself together and strike root. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

For it is possible for a man to be faithful and lazy at the same time. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Government, on their part, are much disposed to favor the establishment of these large companies, and to give them privileges to the detriment of their rivals, and of the public, with the expectation of receiving from them loans, either gratuitous or at a low rate which these never refuse. It is thus that the one sells its protection and the other buys it; and this is already a very great evil. ~ Antoine Destutt De Tracy

It is not enough, citizens, to have destroyed the factions, it is necessary now to repair the evil that they have done to the country. ~ Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

It's a small thing, a life. ~ Antoine Leiris

What I really need is a friend just like me; I'm sure I'd be my own best friend. ~ Antoine Laurain

As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science, without at the same time improving the science itself; neither can we, on the other hand, improve a science without improving the language or nomenclature which belongs to it. ~ Antoine Lavoisier

The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own. ~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events. ~ Antoine Rivarol

If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

A goal without a plan is just a wish. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Good morning," said the flower.
"Where are the men?" the little prince asked, politely. The flower had once seen a caravan passing.
"Men?" she echoed. "I think there are six or seven of them in existence. I saw them, several years ago. But one never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult."
"Goodbye," said the little prince. "Goodbye," said the flower. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes. ~ Antoine Rivarol

If I try to describe him here, it is so as not to forget him. To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend. And if I do forget him, I might become like those grown-ups who no longer care for anything except figures. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

You can never rely on a horse that is educated by fear. There will always be something that he fears more than you. But, when he trusts you, he will ask you, what to do when he is afraid. ~ Antoine De Pluvinel

But the vain man did not hear him. Vain men never hear anything but praise. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water ... ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

I told our guys they must not have cable because Antoine Walker knows how to play, Derek Anderson can play, Shandon Anderson knows how to play, and Gary Payton knows how play. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

No, Dan."

"And you want me to go."

I looked into his eyes. "No. I don't."

He moved closer, encouraged, and put his hand on my shoulder. "Then what do you want, Elle?"

"I want you not to have to settle," I told him.

"Is that what you think I'm doing?"

"I know that's what you'll be doing. Because if you want more from me, you're not going to get it."

He said nothing for a long time. "When I readThe Little Prince, I thought you must be the rose. You with your four thorns, convincing me you're able to defend yourself. But now I know you hate roses. So you must be the fox instead.

So maybe what you really want is for me to tame you."

From a lot of men, that speech would have made me laugh, or roll my eyes. Then again, a lot of men wouldn't have

read Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's classic story ofThe Little Prince, or bothered to try and understand it.

I reached for his hand and held it between both of mine. "The fox tells the Little Prince he is a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. Just like the flower was like a hundred thousand other flowers."

Dan tucked a strand of hair behind my ear with the hand I wasn't holding. "But the fox asked the prince to tame him.

To make it so they'd need each other and be unique to each other. And he did it."

"And then the prince went away, Dan, and left the fox bereft." I looked down at my hands ~ Megan Hart

He drank some more wine, feeling he was about to commit a forbidden act. A transgression. For a man should never go through a woman's handbag-even the most remote tribe would adhere to that ancestral rule. ~ Antoine Laurain

Heavy clouds were putting out the stars ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life ... but what is that something? ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

But I made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Of all trifles, titles are the lightest. ~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one. ~ Antoine Lavoisier

You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Nothing is sudden in nature: whereas the slightest storms are forecasted several days in advance, the destruction of the world must have been announced several years beforehand by heat waves, by winds, by meteorites, in short, by an infinity of phenomena. ~ Nicolas Antoine Boulanger