Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
Lorsque les femmes nous aiment, elles nous pardonnent tout, même nos crimes; lorsqu'elles ne nous aiment pas, elles ne nous pardonnent rien, pas même nos vertus! <br class="br"> La Muse du Département http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/La_Muse_du_d%C3%A9partement_-_II_-_34 (1843), translated by James Waring, part II, ch. XXXIV (part XIII in the translated version).
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
Entre le joueur du matin et le joueur du soir il existe la différence qui distingue le mari nonchalant de l'amant pâmé sous les fenêtres de sa belle.
The Wild Ass’s Skin (1831), Part I: The Talisman
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
Une jeune fille est comme une fleur qu'on a cueillie; mais la femme coupable est une fleur sur laquelle on a marché. <br class="br"> Honorine http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Honorine (1845), translated by Clara Bell
“A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.”
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
Qui parle trop veut tromper.
Part I, ch. VI.
Letters of Two Brides (1841-1842)
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
Le lys dans la vallée http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Lys_dans_la_vall%C3%A9e (1836), translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, part II: First Love. <br class="br">Contesto: True love is eternal, infinite, always like unto itself; it is equable, pure, without violent demonstration; white hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.
Honoré de Balzac libro Une fille d'Ève
Origine: A Daughter of Eve (1839), Ch. 3: The Story of a Happy Woman.
“Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser’s gains are ours without his cares.”
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
The Wild Ass’s Skin (1831), Part I: The Talisman
Contesto: Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser’s gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyments have been intellectual joys.
“Love is the most melodious of all harmonies and the sentiment of love is innate.”
Honoré de Balzac libro Physiology of Marriage
Part I, Meditation V: Of the Predestined http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Physiology_of_Marriage/Part_1/Med_5. <br class="br">Physiology of Marriage (1829) <br class="br">Contesto: Love is the most melodious of all harmonies and the sentiment of love is innate. Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
“Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.”
Honoré de Balzac libro Papà Goriot
Part I.
Le Père Goriot (1835)
Contesto: Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt. We show no more mercy to the affection that reveals its utmost extent than we do to another kind of prodigal who has not a penny left.
“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Variant of this quote "The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up." is misattributed to Albert Einstein.
Origine: According Quote Investigator Mark Twain did write a version of this saying in a personal notebook in 1896, and it was published by 1935 in “Mark Twain’s Notebook”. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/12/21/cheer-somebody/
“It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Anonymous American proverb; since 1998 this has often been attributed to Mark Twain on the internet, but no contemporary evidence of him ever using it has been located. <br class="br">Variants: <br class="br">It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that matters. <br class="br">"Stub Ends of Thoughts" by Arthur G. Lewis, a collection of sayings, in Book of the Royal Blue Vol. 14, No. 7 (April 1911), cited as the earliest known occurrence in The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs, edited by Charles Clay Doyle, Wolfgang Mieder, and Fred R. Shapiro, p. 232 <br class="br">It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that wins. <br class="br">Anonymous quote in the evening edition of the East Oregonian (20 April 1911) <br class="br">What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight — it's the size of the fight in the dog. <br class="br">Dwight D. Eisenhower, declaring his particular variant on the proverbial assertion in Remarks at Republican National Committee Breakfast (31 January 1958) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=11229 <br class="br">Misattributed
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
Mark Twain libro Following the Equator
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. LXVI
Following the Equator (1897)
“The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
No known source in Twain's works. <br class="br">The earliest known source is a Usenet post from November 2000 https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=israel.francophones/j_b0peHVcJw/YN5cG6Pdk6QJ. <br class="br">Disputed
“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
