Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.
Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.
Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
He who best knows the world will love it least.
A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.
Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.
The more you judge, the less you love.
True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
Love is the poetry of the senses.
We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker
Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.
Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends
or simply: