Antoine Rivarol Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally wears them out.”
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Time #Giving #Firsts

“Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.”
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Life #Fear #Past

“It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.”
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Fog #Enchantment #Add

“The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.”
-- Antoine Rivarol

#People #Worry #Doe

“Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.”
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Hands #Ideas #Bears

“Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.”
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Nine #Way #Persons

“There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.”
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Men #Greed #Gains

“To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.”
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Children #Self #Unhappy

“Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.”
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Soul #Gold #Clay

“Very nice couplet, although there are dull stretches.”
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Art #Nice #Dull

“Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.”
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Passion #Actors #Reason

“Women read each other at a single glance.”
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Glances

“Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.”
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Humanity #Oblivion #Fame

“It is not he who searches for praise who finds it.”
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Praise

“Obtuseness is sometimes a virtue.”
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Sometimes #Virtue

“The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.”
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Children #People #Malice

“Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.”
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Practice #Impossible #Theory

“To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.”
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Heart #Ungrateful #May

“Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.”
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Cousin #Stupidity #Firsts

“History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.”
-- Antoine Rivarol

#History #Events #Rich

“The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea.”
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Gossip #Tea #Age

“It is said that friendship between women is only a suspension of hostilities.”
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Friendship #Said #Hostility

“Mind is the partial side of men; the heart is everything.”
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Heart #Men #Mind

“Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration.”
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Eras #Youth #Consideration

“Wrong is wrong; no fallacy can hide it, no subterfuge cover it so shrewdly but that the All-Seeing One will discover and punish it.”
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Subterfuge #Fallacy

“There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit.”
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Wit #Readiness

“The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.”
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Passion #Character #Ideas

“Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.”
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Poverty #Unexpected #Wealth

“The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.”
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Silence #Vices #Avoiding

“If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.”
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Men #Opulence #Poverty