Nicolas Chamfort Quotes
The majority of those who put together collections of verses or epigrams resemble those who eat cherries or oysters: they begin by choosing the best and end by eating everything.
Nicolas Chamfort
The only thing that stops God sending a second Flood is that the first one was useless.
Nicolas Chamfort
Love, as it exists in society, is nothing but the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.
Nicolas Chamfort
Economists are surgeons who operate beautifully on the dead and torment the living.
Nicolas Chamfort
The things you know best are: first, those you know intuitively; second, those you've learned from experience; third, those you've learned not from but through books and the ideas they've inspired in you; and finally, those you've learned in books and from your teachers.
Nicolas Chamfort
Having lots of ideas doesn't mean you're clever, any more than having lots of soldiers means you're a good general.
Nicolas Chamfort
If you would estimate the extent of a woman's pride in youth, see how much remains even after she has passed the age of pleasing.
Nicolas Chamfort
Middle-class women who entertain the hope or fancy of being something in the world, lose Nature's happiness and miss Society's. They are the most unfortunate creatures I have known.
Nicolas Chamfort
After a certain age, any new friends we make in our attempt to replace the ones we've lost are like glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs.
Nicolas Chamfort
Nature didn't tell me Don't be poor; and certainly didn't say: Get rich; but she did shout: Always be independent!
Nicolas Chamfort
Money is the greatest concern for small characters, but is nothing but the smallest for great characters.
Nicolas Chamfort
