Quote by Blaise Pascal
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. – Blaise Pascal

Other quotes by Blaise Pascal

I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. – Blaise Pascal

Category:
Friendship
Read Quote

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him. – Blaise Pascal

Category:
Sports
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Business
category

Politics is just show business for ugly people. – Jay Leno

Category:
Business

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyones got their own definition. – Eric Clapton

Category:
Business

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well. – Alan Greenspan

Category:
Business

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman – like my father, or like me? – Glenn Beck

Category:
Business

Random Quotes

I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother. – Jimmy Carl Black

Category:
Friendship

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank. – Madeleine Albright

Category:
History

The crow in his purity I believe is seen and heard only in the North. Before you reach the Potomac there is an infusion of a weaker element, the fish-crow, whose helpless feminine call contrasts strongly with the hearty masculine caw of the original Simon. – John Burroughs, “Winter Sunshine”

Category:
Birds

But to the slave mother New Years day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns. – Harriet Ann Jacobs

Category:
Morning