Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.
Anatole France
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
Biographer
Critic
Librarian
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Paris
France
Jacques François-Anatole Thibault
François-Anatole Thibault
Anatole Thibault
Rather
Pseudonyms
Use
Statistics
Science
Uses
Sign
God
Name
Names
Chance
Pseudonym
More quotes by Anatole France
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Anatole France
Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
Anatole France
Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Anatole France
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
Anatole France
Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
Anatole France
Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.
Anatole France
What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
Anatole France
I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.
Anatole France
Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.
Anatole France
The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
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
The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
Anatole France
Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned
Anatole France
Custom alone regulates morals.
Anatole France
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Anatole France
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Anatole France
Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
Anatole France