Expenses Quote by Alain-Rene Lesage Download Open image “It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.” — Alain-Rene Lesage ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Expenses May Memories Memory Said Shining Wit
He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“It was funny the way memory obliged the heart. His happy recollections were always afloat in his soupy subconscious where so many of his darker memories had sunk to the underbelly of his past and been as good as lost forever. But without conscious instruction, memory had edited and enlarged the finest moments of his life and stored them like… — Nanci Kincaid Copy Share
Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“The terror of being judged sharpens the memory: it sends an inevitable glare over that long-unvisited past which has been habitually recalled only in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I remembered only the good and loveable things about him, not the wretchedness he caused me, and the dope, and the resentments and silence… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“After a lifetime of living by his wits and his considerable memory, he had given himself full time to the profession of forgetting.” — John le Carré Copy Share Image
Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Maybe memory is overrated. Maybe forgetting is better. (Show me the Proust of forgetting, and I'll read him tomorrow.) Sometimes it's like juggling a… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing. — Alain-Rene Lesage Copy Share Image
The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body… — Alain-Rene Lesage Copy Share Image
Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side. — Alain-Rene Lesage Copy Share Image
Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness… — Alain-Rene Lesage Copy Share Image
On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his… — Alain-Rene Lesage Copy Share Image
Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his… — Alain-Rene Lesage Copy Share Image
I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances. I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think… — Alain-Rene Lesage Copy Share Image
The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships. . . it seems safe to say that such ideas are wholly visionary and even if the machine could get across with one or two passengers the expense would be prohibitive to any but the capitalist… — William Henry Pickering Copy Share
A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen to be impartially dedicated to the general public interest, nor will they give trust to those high in government who violate the rule of law they ask citizens to obey at the expense of self-interest, or… — Archibald Cox Copy Share
Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I have thoroughly tried school-keeping, and found that my expenses were in proportion, or rather out of proportion, to my income,for I was obliged to dress and train, not to say think and believe, accordingly, and I lost my time into the bargain. As I did not teach for the good of my fellow-men, but simply for a livelihood, this… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
According to a recent Harvard study, $6 trillion, when you include the ongoing healthcare expenses for our wounded soldiers, which is the least they… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
we are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and has been… — Maude Royden Copy Share Image
I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
If you want to gain market share at your competitor's expense - look for a customer that's suffering from too much complexity and simplify… — Peter Cohan Copy Share Image
I love working and I feel satisfied when I know I have literally given all the energy that I have. That being said, work… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside. — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots. — Steve Sheinkin Copy Share Image
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