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Chamfort Quotes

«The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.»
«All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little I still know, I've guessed.»
Author: Chamfort | Keywords: forgotten, guessed
«It is easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate»
Author: Chamfort | Keywords: legal, legitimate
«Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history»
Author: Chamfort | About: Love | Keywords: amusing, novels
«Chance is a nickname of Providence»
Author: Chamfort | About: Chance | Keywords: nickname, nicknamed, Nicknames, providence
«A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.»
Author: Chamfort | Keywords: added, intellect
«Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life»
«Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners»
Author: Chamfort | About: Society | Keywords: appetite, classes, composed, dinners
«Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.»
«There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are well-dressed fools»
Author: Chamfort | Keywords: dressed

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