Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Peter Alexander Ustinov

Peter Alexander Ustinov

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Unfortunately, the balance of nature stipulates that the superabundance of dreams is paid for with an increase in nightmares.

Peter Alexander Ustinov

Peter Alexander Ustinov

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Parents are the bones with which children sharpen their teeth.

Peter Alexander Ustinov

Peter Alexander Ustinov

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Since we are destined to live our lives in the prison of our mind, let us at least furnish it well.

Juan Valera

Juan Valera

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The universe, with all its splendor and beauty, is chaos for the man without faith.

Juan Valera

Juan Valera

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The visible universe, that is, the realization or embodiment of divine thought, is the occasional cause of science.

Voltaire

Voltaire

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There is someone so intelligent that they learn from the experience of others.

Voltaire

Voltaire

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Stupidity is an extraordinary disease, it is not the patient who suffers from it, but the others.

Voltaire

Voltaire

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Hope is a Christian virtue that consists of despising all the wretched things of this world in anticipation of enjoying, in an unknown country, unknown delights that the priests promise us in exchange for our money.

Voltaire

Voltaire

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To obtain the smallest fortune, it is worth more to say four words to the king's mistress than to write a hundred volumes.

Voltaire

Voltaire

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

Voltaire

Voltaire

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The one who is afraid of poverty is not worthy of being rich.

Voltaire

Voltaire

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Whoever does not have all the intelligence of their age, has all their misfortune.