French Quotes

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Wit doesn't make girls pretty.

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

Not having children is one less worry. Children are a worry!

In life, people sometimes make rotten deals.

I've been forgotten by our Good Lord.

I'm not afraid of anything.

I'm interested in everthing but passionate about nothing.

I'd like to go to the Moon.

I wait for death and journalists.

I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.

I think I will die laughing.

I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything's fine.

I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.

I didn't like mundane life.

He who hugs too much, hugs badly!

Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.

Every age has its happiness and troubles.

All babies are beautiful.

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

I never wear mascara; I laugh until I cry too often.