W. W. Dumas Quotes
Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend they'll last forever.
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's all about.
Even though i have no other choice but to marry you... I Just want to make it clear that i love and will always love Matt Hardy
Life is a learning experience. All you can do is learn from your mistakes, but you can't go back in time.
In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs.
We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
The child is small, and he includes the man; the brain is narrow, and it harbours thought; the eye is but a point, and it covers leagues
D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself? Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he’ll be his usual charming self by morning.
Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.
No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo
Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at.
I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed.
In inorganic chemistry the radicals are simple; in organic chemistry they are compounds—that is the sole difference.
It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!
So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
My parents are highly evolved worriers. ... If worrying were an Olympic sport, my parents' faces would have graced the Wheaties box a long time ago.
I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.
We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.
It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising
Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"?
The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.
For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
