Skip to main content

To a toad what is beauty? A f...

To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

Voltaire 196 quotes

Antiquity is full of the prai...

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

Voltaire 196 quotes

History in general is a colle...

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

Voltaire 196 quotes

A torch lighted in the forest...

A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

Voltaire 196 quotes

If God did not exist, he woul...

If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

Voltaire 196 quotes

This agglomeration which was ...

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

Voltaire 196 quotes

All the arts are brothers; ea...

All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

Voltaire 196 quotes

Man is not born wicked; he be...

Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.

Voltaire 196 quotes

Observe that noses were made ...

Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

Voltaire 196 quotes

The adjective is the enemy of...

The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

Voltaire 196 quotes

Nothing could be smarter, mor...

Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell.

Voltaire 196 quotes

It would be easier to subjuga...

It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.

Voltaire 196 quotes

It is proved...that things ca...

It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

Voltaire 196 quotes

How inexpressible is the mean...

How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

Voltaire 196 quotes

Now is not the time for makin...

Now is not the time for making new enemies.

Voltaire 196 quotes

Everything I see about me is ...

Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

Voltaire 196 quotes

He who has heard the same thi...

He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

Voltaire 196 quotes

Men must have somewhat altere...

Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

Voltaire 196 quotes

Change everything except your...

Change everything except your loves.

Voltaire 196 quotes

It is not a mistress I have l...

It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

Voltaire 196 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

23

Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

83

Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

115

Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

219

Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

541

Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

165

Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....