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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Quote by Jacques Prévert about poetry, present, night, life, contentment

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Quote by Jacques Prévert about happiness, contentment

In this world, you must be a bit too kind in order to be kind enough.

Quote by Pierre de Marivaux about goodnes, order, world, contentment

Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.

Quote by John Witherspoon about opinion, contentment

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

Quote by Alfred Adler about life, danger, contentment

The black serpent, leaving his filthy cave, Has finally suffered by your hand so sure and brave The end of its venomous existence so despised! From the tiger's guts, from his homicidal teeth You came and drew what he'd devoured from...

Quote by Joseph Chénier about poetry, victims, blood, existence, magic, end, contentment

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.

Quote by George Meredith about victory, contentment

You can point out to people how to make what they do better, but you can't teach somebody how to be a great writer, just like you can't teach somebody how to be a fast runner. You can work on their technique, but either they're fast or they're...

Quote by Richard Price about literature, fasting, writers, contentment, work, people

You, O Queen, are the fairest here, But Snow White, who has gone to stay With the seven dwarfs far, far away, Is a thousand times more fair. Snow White

Quote by Wilhelm Grimm about literature, contentment

If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth.

Quote by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola about philosophy, earth, reason, rightness, being, things, contentment

Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating...

Quote by Hector Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac about opinion, shame, destruction, objects, country, life, contentment

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

Quote by Luther Burbank about nature, judges, contentment

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

Quote by Friedrich Schlegel about opinion, contentment

So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.

Quote by Giuseppe Mazzini about homeland, immortality, humanity, country, death, life, contentment

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none.

Quote by Giuseppe Mazzini about woman, inspiration, idea, moral, respect, mind, love, contentment

Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you; say to the priests that you know God better than all of them together do, and that between God and His...

Quote by Giuseppe Mazzini about god, contentment, teachers, smile, humanity, intelligence, name, law, country, people

Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.

Quote by Torquato Tasso about love, soul, contentment

Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart!

Quote by Torquato Tasso about love, heart, people, contentment

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

Quote by Irving Layton about opinion, intelligence, contentment, things

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

Quote by George Seferis about education, contentment, man