"A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories."
-Honore de Balzac
thanksgivingView Quote
"All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.“
-Honore de Balzac
posted in history
Other Quotes
Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection
"There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile."
-Honore de Balzac
womenView Quote
"Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect without esteem they cannot exist esteem is the first demand that they make of love."
-Honore de Balzac
womenView Quote
"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."
-Honore de Balzac
womenView Quote
"The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste."
-Honore de Balzac
womenView Quote
"Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love."
-Honore de Balzac
wisdomView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers."
-Carlos Fuentes
historyView Quote
"If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society."
-Strom Thurmond
historyView Quote
"For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats."
-Harry Browne
historyView Quote
"There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations."
-Claude Vorilhon
historyView Quote
"This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?"
-Azar Nafisi
historyView Quote
"What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history."
-Barney Frank
historyView Quote