"My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope."

Ovid | Hope | 38 bookmarks

"Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work."

Sawyer, Charles | Hope | 22 bookmarks

"If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De | Nations | 1 bookmarks

"If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew."

Einstein, Albert | Race and Racism | 3 bookmarks

"Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philter, it is also the leisurely act of drinking."

Barthes, Roland | Alcohol and Alcoholism | 2 bookmarks

"The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend."

Ward, Arch | Friends and Friendship | 4 bookmarks

"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it's turn."

Borland, Hal | Hope | 4 bookmarks

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

Camus, Albert | Potential | 4 bookmarks

"France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country."

Twain, Mark | Nations | 4 bookmarks