Forty Quote by Nicolas Chamfort Download Open image “Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.” — Nicolas Chamfort ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Forty Mankind Misanthrope
It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“Today's sub-40s have different horrors, prominent among which are anomie and solipsism and a peculiarly American loneliness: the prospect of dying without once having… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
If you are to love mankind, you must not expect too much from it. — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles less, but… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
If you really want to love humanity, then you have to love humanity as it is now. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now… — Kurt Tucholsky Copy Share Image
Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me or to… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Whether one is twenty, forty, or sixty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along; whether yesterday was full of sun or storm,… — Leigh Mitchell Hodges Copy Share Image
In the olden days in England, you could be hung for stealing a sheep or a loaf of bread. However, if a sheep stole… — Mike Harding Copy Share Image
It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty five minutes… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I may be forty, but every morning when I get up, I feel like a twenty-year-old. Unfortunately, there's never one around. — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot Gould's been… — George Burns Copy Share Image
As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that… — William Osler Copy Share Image
I am supremely humbled to receive the 40 Under Forty honor by Stony Brook University in the category of Civil Service and Activism. — Momina Mustehsan Copy Share Image
In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted. — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
