Aime Martin famous quotes

It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone.
-- Aime Martin

#Two #Individual #Quarrels

In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.
-- Aime Martin

#Education #Soul #Degrees

All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.
-- Aime Martin

#Reflection #Movement #Firsts

It is very clear that one way to challenge insults is to submit to them.
-- Aime Martin

#Challenges #Way #Insult

Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they reign, because their empire is that of the affections.
-- Aime Martin

#Country #Law #Giving

If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.
-- Aime Martin

#Women #People #Political

Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two.

Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.

On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of.... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.

Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.

Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.

Possessions of this world have not been for the exclusive use by such or such category of individuals.

Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.

I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.