Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
More Anatole France Quotes
-
-
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
All ought to be common among friends.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
It is not customary to love what one has
ANATOLE FRANCE -
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
ANATOLE FRANCE -
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
ANATOLE FRANCE -
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
ANATOLE FRANCE