"When I play with my cat, who knows……" — Michel de Montaigne
"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."
—
Michel de Montaigne
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
649 Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne has 649 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against…
-
Whatever are the benefits of fortune, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them.
-
We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a…
-
Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.
-
Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
-
There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal…
-
Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care…
-
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many…
-
It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole,…
-
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
-
Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
-
Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
See all 649 quotes by Michel de Montaigne »
More Amusing Quotes
This quote is filed under Amusing Quotes,
one of 257 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be…
— Rowan Atkinson
-
Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things…
— Rowan Atkinson
-
I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
— David Bailey
-
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their…
— George Bancroft
-
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
— Charles Baudelaire
-
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than…
— Charles Baudelaire
-
Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
— Charles Baudelaire
-
Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
— Arnold Bennett
-
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
— Aesop
-
I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an…
— Thomas Carlyle
-
While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept…
— Lewis Carroll
-
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
— Nicolas Chamfort
See all 257 Amusing Quotes »