black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.

Alexandre Dumas

For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Choice Head Heart Ideas
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Known Learning Memories Oneself Philosophy
Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Business Money People Quite Simplicity
It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Man Promise Rare Threat Woman
Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Effect Oppression Sorrow Strange Time
Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? – why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections – an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places – which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Breathe Chain Connection Place Present Sadness Time
A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Black Cloud Horizon Mindset See Sky Weakness Yourself
We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantes’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Gratitude Money Obligation Quit
Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Drought Fall Ground Heart Suffering
Wait and hope!
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Hope Patience Wait
Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Character Fact Faith Reason Understanding Willing
Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Diet Drunk Lover Protection
Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Burn Fire Greatness Truth Water
One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Education Finish Oneself Work
In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Business Friendship Oneself
It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Betrayal Flower Tree

Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Alexandre Dumas Quotes