"The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches,……" — Emile Zola
"The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg."
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56 Quotes by Emile Zola
Emile Zola has 56 quotes on this site.
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I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything…
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One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we…
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts…
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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not…
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It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile…
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They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions…
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It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went…
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Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why…
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When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some…
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More Crutches Quotes
This quote is filed under Crutches Quotes,
one of 94 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested…
— James A. Baldwin
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Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people
— Jesse Ventura
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Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.
— Tom Stoppard
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Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to…
— J I Packer
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Once and for all the idea of glorious victories won by the glorious army must be wiped out. Niether side…
— Peter Weiss
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Is it not possible to look beyond the canes, the wheelchairs, the braces, and the crutches into the hearts of…
— James E. Faust
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Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind,…
— Douglas Bader
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The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch…
— Harry Browne
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In chemistry, our theories are crutches; to show that they are valid, they must be used to walk... A theory…
— Jean-Baptiste Dumas
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say…
— Larry Flynt
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Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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