When policy fails try thinking.

Quote by Honore De Balzac

Topics: Thinking Quotes

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.

The more one judges, the less one loves.

The more one judges, the less one loves.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you...

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you...

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

To our shame a woman is never so much attached to us as when we...

To our shame a woman is never so much attached to us as when we...

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that...

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that...

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his...

A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his...

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the...

A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the...

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the...

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the...

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the...

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the...

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.