Quote by Alphonse Karr
Every man has three characters — that which he exhibits, th

Every man has three characters — that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. – Alphonse Karr

Other quotes by Alphonse Karr

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end. – Alphonse Karr

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Marriage
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I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We havent a hope. I know the presiding judge too: Ive had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked. – Alphonse Karr

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Hope
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Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns I am thankful that thorns have roses. – Alphonse Karr

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thankful
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It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. – Robert Louis Stevenson, “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Virginibus Puerisque, 1881

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Miscellaneous

A problem well stated is a problem half solved. – Charles F. Kettering

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Miscellaneous

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. – Isaac Newton, letter to Robert Hooke, 5 February 1675 (“Bernard of Chartres used

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Miscellaneous

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. – Jonathan Swift, “Thoughts on Various Subjects,” Miscellanies, 1711

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Miscellaneous

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I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that. – Ivan Lendl

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Travel

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head. – Serj Tankian

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Society

You can go to a play that is enjoyable because its funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play thats enjoyable because its disturbing. – Wallace Shawn

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funny

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest. – Confucius

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Experience