Cambio De Moneda Quotes

The wise woman patterns her life on the theory and practice of modern banking. She never gives her love, but only lends it on the best security and at the highest rate of interest. ~ Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them. ~ Baron De Montesquieu

I grew up watching Marlon Brando, Christopher Walken, Robert de Niro, and Al Pacino and even Robert Duvall and was impressed by their caliber of work. ~ Cole Hauser

[On Napoleon:] The Emperor is too grand for anybody to tell him the truth, everybody who surrounds him flatters him all day long. ~ Josephine De Beauharnais

If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly and understand the subtleties of all the arts and sciences as well as sons. And by chance there happen to be such women, for, as I touched on before, just as women have more delicate bodies than men, weaker and less able to perform many tasks, so do they have minds that are freer and sharper whenever they apply themselves. ~ Christine De Pizan

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within. ~ Anthony De Mello

What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty. ~ Alain De Botton

Dance constitutes a true recapturing of ... freedom and childish play. ~ Agnes De Mille

Truly, by the watering of our Savior's blood, made with the hyssop of the cross, we have been restored to a white incomparably better than that possessed by the snows of innocence. ~ Francis De Sales

The only thing certain is nothing is certain. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness. ~ Madame De Stael

No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them ... ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary. ~ Michel De Montaigne

If all, or almost all, the plays that are popular now, imaginative works as well as historical ones, are known to be nonsense and without rhyme or reason, and despite this the mob hears them with pleasure and thinks of them and approves of them as good, when they are very far from being so, and the authors who compose them and the actors who perform them say they must be like this because that is just how the mob wants them, and no other way; the plays that have a design and follow the story as art demands appeal to a handful of discerning persons who understand them, while everyone else is incapable of comprehending their artistry; and since, as far as the authors and actors are concerned, it is better to earn a living with the crowd than a reputation with the elite, this is what would happen to my book after I had singed my eyebrows trying to keep the precepts I have mentioned and had become the tailor who wasn't paid. ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach. ~ Miguel De Cervantes

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies. ~ Guy De Maupassant

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas. ~ Miguel De Unamuno

The trust that we put in ourselves makes us feel trust in others. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Everything needs to touch your heart. Everything that touches your heart brings out the deep in you. ~ John De Ruiter

As soon as they're out of your sight, you are out of their mind. ~ Walter De La Mare

The Master was exceedingly gracious to university dons who visited him, but he would never reply to their questions or be drawn into their theological speculations. To his disciples, who marveled at this, he said, Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts? ~ Anthony De Mello

It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder. ~ Antoine Jacques Claude Joseph, Comte Boulay De La Meurthe

Few men have been admired of their familiars. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Another trap. Never let yourself be tricked into comparing one woman with all others; it rarely turns out well. ~ Sebastien De Castell

A solitary traveler can sleep from state to state, from day to night, from day to day, in the long womb of its controlled interior. It is the cradle that never stops rocking after the lullaby is over. It is the biggest sleeping tablet in the world, and no one need ever swallow the pill, for it swallows them. ~ Lisa St. Aubin De Teran

Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh ... he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste. ~ A.S. Byatt

Rather than struggling to become bigger fish, we might concentrate our energies on finding smaller ponds or smaller species to swim with, so our own size will trouble us less. ~ Alain De Botton

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

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

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness. ~ Honore De Balzac

It is not certain where Death awaits us, so let us await it everywhere. To think of death beforehand is to think of our liberty. Whoever learns how to die has learned how not to be a slave. Knowing how to die frees us from all subjection and constraint.xi ~ Michel De Montaigne

In the afternoon the digestion of the meal deprives me of the incomparable lightness which characterizes the fast days. ~ Adalbert De Vogue

A well-loved child is set a challenging precedent. In its very nature, parental love works to conceal the effort which went into generating it. It shields the recipient from the donor's complexity and sadness - and from an awareness of how many other interests, friends and concerns the parent has sacrificed in the name of love. ~ Alain De Botton

An artist should have more than two eyes. ~ Alphonse De Lamartine

To exaggerate is to weaken. ~ Jean-Francois De La Harpe