There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
Honore de Balzac
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
03DEC2019 – Quote of the Day
As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
Honore de Balzac
02DEC2019 – Quote of the Day
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Honore de Balzac
01DEC2019 – Quote of the Day
People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
Honore de Balzac
30NOV2019 – Quote of the Day
Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.
Honore de Balzac
29NOV2019 – Quote of the Day
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
Honore de Balzac
28NOV2019 – Quote of the Day
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
Honore de Balzac
27NOV2019 – Quote of the Day
No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
Honore de Balzac
26NOV2019 – Quote of the Day
Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.
Ernest Hemingway
25NOV2019 – Quote of the Day
Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
Friedrich Nietzsche