Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.

  • I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?

  • If I were you I would face my clothes, to make sure that no one runs off with them!

  • I talk a lot about women in my act, 'cause let's face it -- if I was hungry, I would talk about food.

  • The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?

  • I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.

  • It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings.

  • The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.

  • Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate. Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.

  • The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.