W. W. Dumas Quotes
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy
There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.
...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean and the pain of what it's not.
My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions.. with intrusions of irrelevant information.
If it's not in your heart you're not gonna make it. At the end, looking back, you know its worth it.
Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
I single handedly revolutionised women's roles in the WWE, before me all women were eye candy.
I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
Remember this although timing in life is everything, memorable moments in history don't just happen! Do something...stay positive!
If you're having trouble finding someone to play with, why don't you just go play with yourself.
Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master.
The air in Provence is impregnated with the aroma of garlic, which makes it very healthful to breathe.
A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.
As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
Sometimes there's more important things in life than being in the ring, like family, like us, & being in love.
God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me.
Without my relatives, I am but a thread; together, we form a colorful and elaborate Persian carpet.
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.