"Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable."
-Voltaire
workView Quote
Other Quotes
Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection
"The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work."
-Voltaire
workView Quote
"We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest."
-Voltaire
workView Quote
"It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it."
-Voltaire
workView Quote
"Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors but they are seldom or ever inventors."
-Voltaire
womenView Quote
"I hate women because they always know where things are."
-Voltaire
womenView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of."
-Joseph Addison
greatView Quote
"To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it."
-Horace
greatView Quote
"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."
-Adam Smith
greatView Quote
"I wear black skinny-fit jeans - I can't get away from them. It's funny because I wore baggy jeans for ages, then one day my friend convinced me to try on a skinny pair and I thought they were great."
-Shaun White
greatView Quote
"Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
greatView Quote
"I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas."
-Cher
greatView Quote