Pulando De Tirolesa Quotes

The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth ... celebrated by each succeeding generation as it arrives on the threshold of adulthood. ~ Pierre De Coubertin

Now I have discovered where it is that she goes. It's the guillotine that draws her, across the river in the Place Louis Quinze- Place de la Revolution now-where daily crowds gather, the vendors selling lemonade, the children playing prisoner's base, the old ladies gossiping as the heads fall. ~ Sandra Gulland

One evening, on being quite occupied by the state of the struffoli, I seated the Duca di San Orvieta with the Duchessa opposite, and between two of his mistresses. They fought over his attentions, above the table and below, like squid intent on extracting a mollusc from its shell. The poor man was so distracted that he hardly ate a bite. The Duchessa's words to me afterwards were not lacking in picturesque vividness. ~ Emmanuelle De Maupassant

America posed a deeply interesting question to any Frenchmen with a political curiosity to ask it. How had Americans launched a revolution that aimed at establishing a free, stable, and constitutional government and made a success of it, while the French had in forty-one years lurched from absolute monarchy to constitutional monarchy, to the declaration of the republic, to mob rule, the Terror, the mass murder, and thence to a conservative republic, Napoleonic autocracy, the Bourbon restoration, further revolution, and the installation of an Orleanist constitutional monarchy? ~ Alan Ryan

It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures. ~ Marquis De Sade

Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass. ~ Michel De Montaigne

The angels would become incarnate if they could, so that they might come to earth to imitate the example and virtues of the Son of God! ~ Vincent De Paul

We've never heard
About a marvel quite so great,
For all the heroes who have lived
In history can't measure up
In bravery against the Maid. ~ Christine De Pizan

Clouds signify the veil of the Most High. ~ Honore De Balzac

But tell me, uncle, who is responsible for your being involved in these quarrels? Would it not be better to remain peacefully here at home and not go roaming through the world in search of better bread than is made from wheat, without taking into consideration that many who go for wool come back shorn?"
"My dear niece," replied Don Quixote, "how little you understand of these matters! Before they shear me, I will have plucked and stripped the beards of any who dare to touch the tip of a single hair of mine. ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us. ~ Ninon De L'Enclos

All the impressions which are made on us by Nature are designed to exercise our soul during its terms of penitence, to prompt us towards the eternal truths shown beneath a veil, and to lead us to recover what we have lost. ~ Louis Claude De Saint-Martin

Whenever a new discovery is reported to the world, they say first, It is probably not true, Then after, when the truth of the new proposition has been demonstrated beyond question, they say, Yes, it may be true, but it is not important. Finally, when sufficient time has elapsed to fully evidence its importance, they say, Yes, surely it is important, but it is no longer new. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

On Ira Gershwin:
I remember when he was given the manuscript of a novel written by a woman friend who had hopes of having it published. To his astonishment it turned out to be the dirtiest, most pornographic book he had ever read. When the lady mentioned that she intended to use a nom de plume, Ira suggested she call herself Henrietta Miller. ~ Oscar Levant

Have seen no other effects in rods but to make children's minds more remiss or more maliciously headstrong. ~ Michel De Montaigne

When I close my eyes my vision is even more powerful. ~ Giorgio De Chirico

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects. ~ Charles De Gaulle

What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief. ~ Honore De Balzac

No prince, no success filled her dreams: only time spread out before her to spend as she chose, a time of contemplation which offered her refuge. ~ Delphine De Vigan

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. ~ Honore De Balzac

As long as the working-people fold hands and pray the gods in Washington to give them work, so long they will not get it. ~ Voltairine De Cleyre

There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence. ~ Ninette De Valois

Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant. ~ Michel De Montaigne

The religionists are the enemies of liberty, and the friends of liberty attack religion; the high-minded and the noble advocate bondage, and the meanest and most servile preach independence; honest and enlightened citizens are opposed to all progress, whilst men without patriotism and without principle put themselves forward as the apostles of civilization and intelligence. Has such been the fate of the centuries which have preceded our own? and has man always inhabited a world like the present, where all things are out of their natural connections, where virtue is without genius, and genius without honor; where the love of order is confounded with a taste for oppression, and the holy rites of freedom with a contempt of law; where the light thrown by conscience on human actions is dim, and where nothing seems to be any longer forbidden or allowed, honorable or shameful, false or true? ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Thy enterprises speed, Didst thou the light mid Libya's sands Or Jaca's rocks first see? ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Even if someone wasn't perfect or even especially good, you couldn't dismiss the love they felt. Love was always love; it had a rightness all its own, even if the person feeling the love was full of wrongness. ~ Marisa De Los Santos

And walking on like that, I found the well at daybreak. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Whatever efforts one may make, one must revert to the realization that religion is the real basis of morality; religion is the real and perceptible purpose within us, which alone, can turn aside our attention from things ... The science of morality can no more teach human beings to be honest, in all the magnificence of this word, than geometry can teach one how to draw. ~ Madame De Stael

The woman who loves always smells good. ~ Remy De Gourmont

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

None but tyrants have any business to be afraid. ~ Hardouin De Perefixe De Beaumont

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs. ~ Miguel De Unamuno

It was never assumed in the United States that the citizen of a free country has a right to do whatever he pleases; on the contrary, social obligations were there imposed upon him more various than anywhere else. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville