Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed. — Jean de la Bruyere Comedy Copy Share Image
We come too late to say anything which has not been said already. — Jean de la Bruyere Late Copy Share Image
The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile? — Jean De La Bruyere Cost Copy Share Image
Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency. — Jean de la Bruyere Caprice Copy Share Image
Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth. — Jean de la Bruyere Add Copy Share Image
A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct. — Jean de la Bruyere Manners Copy Share Image
The reason that women do not love one another is - men. — Jean de la Bruyere Cynical Copy Share Image
A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit. — Jean de la Bruyere Believe Copy Share Image
The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence. — Jean de la Bruyere Existence Copy Share Image
Women become attached to men by the intimacies they grant them; men are cured of their love by the same intimacies. — Jean de la Bruyere Grants Copy Share Image
The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management. — Jean de la Bruyere Conjecture Copy Share Image
For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the humblest of husbands can bear; she… — Jean de la Bruyere Bears Copy Share Image
When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of… — Jean de la Bruyere Alive Copy Share Image
There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much… — Jean de la Bruyere Fame Copy Share Image
The same amount of pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely; to those above him. — Jean de la Bruyere Amount Copy Share Image
A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably. — Jean de la Bruyere Authorship Copy Share Image
Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who… — Jean de la Bruyere Attractive Copy Share Image
The art of conversation consists far less in displaying much wit oneself than in helping others to be witty: the man who… — Jean de la Bruyere Art Copy Share Image
A simple garb is the proper costume of the vulgar; it is cut for them, and exactly suits their measure, but it… — Jean de la Bruyere Accounts Copy Share Image
A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough… — Jean de la Bruyere Bounds Copy Share Image
There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false… — Jean de la Bruyere Character Copy Share Image
A good saying often runs the risk of being thrown away when quoted as the speaker's own. [Fr., C'est souvent hasarder un… — Jean de la Bruyere Quotation Copy Share Image
If women were by nature what they make themselves by art; if they were to lose suddenly all the freshness of their… — Jean de la Bruyere Art Copy Share Image
Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself;… — Jean de la Bruyere Common Copy Share Image
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. — Jean de la Bruyere Good mind Copy Share Image
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things. — Jean de la Bruyere Beautiful Copy Share Image
Women run to extremes, they are either better or worse than men. — Jean de la Bruyere Extremes Copy Share Image
Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar. — Jean de la Bruyere Custom Copy Share Image
Most men make use of the first part of their life to render the last part miserable. — Jean de la Bruyere Firsts Copy Share Image
Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it. — Jean de la Bruyere Aversion Copy Share Image
Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched. — Jean de la Bruyere Firsts Copy Share Image
We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. — Jean de la Bruyere Add Copy Share Image
Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object. — Jean de la Bruyere Envy Copy Share Image
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all. — Jean de la Bruyere Glory Copy Share Image
Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world. — Jean de la Bruyere Diamonds Copy Share Image
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