Quotes By Anatole France
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
Anatole France
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
Anatole France
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
Anatole France
The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
Anatole France
We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.
Anatole France
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
Anatole France
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
Anatole France