Emile Souvestre famous quotes

Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.
-- Emile Souvestre

#Food #Doe #Slave

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.
-- Emile Souvestre

#Spring #Selfishness #Spurs

Celebrity sells dearly what we think she gives.
-- Emile Souvestre

#Thinking #Giving #Fame

Women speak in the superlative.
-- Emile Souvestre

#Speak #Temperament #Superlatives

Wisdom and love do not take up their abode in the same breast.
-- Emile Souvestre

#Wisdom #And Love #Abode

Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.

Fat is a barrier, a bellicose statement to others that, to some, justifies hostility in kind. The world says to the fat person, "Your fatness is an affront to me, so we have the right to treat you as offensively as you appear." Fat is not merely viewed as another type of tissue, but as a diagnostic sign, a personal statement, and a measure of personality. Too little fat and we see you as being antisocial, fearful and sexless. Too much fat and we see you as slothful, stupid, and sexually hung up.

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

Let's stop somebody from doing something! Everybody does too much.

When one door opens, so does another one.

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.

I desire Virtue, though I love her not- I have no faith in her when she is got: I fear that she will bind and make me slave And send me songless to the sullen grave.