"Love is more pleasant than marriage for the……" — Nicolas Chamfort
"Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history."
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Nicolas Chamfort
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107 Quotes by Nicolas Chamfort
Nicolas Chamfort has 107 quotes on this site.
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There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
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Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
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The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
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The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of…
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It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can…
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Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?
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Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
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More Amusing Quotes
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I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things…
— Rowan Atkinson
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I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
— David Bailey
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Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their…
— George Bancroft
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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
— Charles Baudelaire
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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
— Arnold Bennett
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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
— Aesop
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I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an…
— Thomas Carlyle
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While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept…
— Lewis Carroll
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You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
— Winston Churchill
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