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2041 quotesWe do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
Vice
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
Advice
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
Behavior
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.
Love
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.
Advice
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
Conversation
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.
Elegance
Christian Lacroix
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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
Cities and City Life
Alphonse De Lamartine
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She looked as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth --or anywhere else.
Innocence
Else Lanchester
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Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
Honesty
Steve Landesberg
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I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.
Poverty and The Poor
Melville D. Landon
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
Motivation
Walter Savage Landor
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What is reading, but silent conversation.
Books - Reading
Walter Savage Landor
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Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
Wrong
Walter Savage Landor
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Fools can find fault, but they can't act anymore wisely.
Faults
Langbien
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He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
Self-control
Lao-Tzu
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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
Self-love
Lao-Tzu
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Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid.
Fortune
Latin Proverb
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Tragedy is like strong acid -- it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
Tragedies
D. H. Lawrence
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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
Adversity
Thomas E. Lawrence
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
Food and Eating
Fran Lebowitz
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Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
Thoughts and Thinking
Stanislaw J. Lec
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People see the world not as it is, but as they are.
Reality
Al Lee
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It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Simplicity
Bruce Lee
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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.
Work
John Lennon
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun