Tag: Quote of the Day

How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?

Michel de Montaigne

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Michel de Montaigne

He who does not give himself leisure to be thirsty cannot take pleasure in drinking.

Michel de Montaigne

My trade and my art is living.

Michel de Montaigne

As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.

Michel de Montaigne

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

Michel de Montaigne

To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom.

Michel de Montaigne

I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.

Michel de Montaigne

I am angry at the custom of forbidding children to call their father by the name of father, and to enjoin them another, as more full of respect and reverence, as if nature had not sufficiently provided for our authority. We call Almighty God Father, and disdain to have our children call us so. I have reformed this error in my family.—[As did Henry IV. of France]—And ’tis also folly and injustice to deprive children, when grown up, of familiarity with their father, and to carry a scornful and austere countenance toward them, thinking by that to keep them in awe and obedience; for it is a very idle farce that, instead of producing the effect designed, renders fathers distasteful, and, which is worse, ridiculous to their own children.

Michel de Montaigne

When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?

We entertain each other with reciprocal monkey tricks. If I have my time to begin or to refuse, so has she hers.

Michel de Montaigne