Victor Hugo quotes and words of wisdom

"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved."
Found in the topic Happiness.

"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age."
Found in the topic Youth.

"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."
Found in the topic Age.

"Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite."
Found in the topic Genius.

"True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"People do not lack strength, they lack will."
Found in the topic Will.

"Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause."
Found in the topic Cause.

"Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds."
Found in the topic Action.

"Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad."
Found in the topic Sad.

"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
Found in the topic Initiative.

"There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson."
Found in the topic Shame.

"Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers."
Found in the topic Gravity.

"Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure."
Found in the topic Reverie.

"Caution is the eldest child of wisdom."
Found in the topic Wisdom.

"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor."
Found in the topic Thief.

"To love another person is to see the face of God."
Found in the topic God.

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."
Found in the topic Education.

"There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul."
Found in the topic Sea.

"To reform a man you must begin with his grandmother."
Found in the topic Mother.

"Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education."
Found in the topic Common.

Interesting Quotes

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.Simon Cameron - US financier & politician (1799 - 1889)

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.Mao Tse-tung - Chinese Communist politician (1893 - 1976)