Ernest Legouve famous quotes

God has laid upon us many severe trials in this world, but He has created labour for us, and all is compensated. Thanks to labour, the bitterest tears are dried; a serious consoler, it always promises less than it bestows; a pleasure unparalleled, it is still the salt of other pleasures. Everything abandons you -- gaiety, wit, love -- labour alone is always present.
-- Ernest Legouve

#Promise #Tears #Serious

Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy.
-- Ernest Legouve

#Sympathy #Men #Giving

If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime.
-- Ernest Legouve

#Pride #Men #Thinking

A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise.

Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.

Some reckon their age by years, Some measure their life by art; But some tell their days by the flow of their tears And their lives by the moans of their hearts.

You, mad to expect repentance,Tear your robe all you want;I will never repent!

Life should be lived to the point of tears

The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Long gone are the days of the stylised old James Bond films with Roger Moore karate chopping his way through the bad guys - audiences are not going to buy it anymore. The genre has got quite serious now.

Good design is serious business.

Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.