Moving Quote by Georges Duhamel

When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.

— Georges Duhamel

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he…

— Georges Duhamel

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

— Georges Duhamel

You conquered the landscape with the soles of shoes, not the tires.

— Georges Duhamel

A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans... in books…

— Georges Duhamel

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. Like the images the photographer plunges…

— Georges Duhamel

No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.

— Georges Duhamel

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

— Georges Duhamel

“What distinguishes man from his innocent brothers, the animals,...is not language, nor reason, nor even civilization...it is man's enormous appetite for suffering.”

— Georges Duhamel

Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain.

— Georges Duhamel

It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.

— Georges Duhamel

To drink is a small matter. To be thirsty is everything.

— Georges Duhamel