Logo
Quote by Andre Gide
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. – Andre Gide

Other quotes by Andre Gide

Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly. – Andre Gide

Category:
Butterflies
Author
Andre Gide
Read Quote

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. – Andre Gide

Category:
Art
Author
Andre Gide
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Age
category

I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it. – Bernard Berenson

Category:
Age

Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50, feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your 50s, 60s and 70s, with health being a major factor. – Jane Pauley

Category:
Age

One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age – at the age of 38 in fact – he changed course and decided to become a doctor. – Colin Firth

Category:
Age

Theres a vintage which comes with age and experience. – Jon Bon Jovi

Category:
Age

Random Quotes

I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry. – Frank Murkowski

Category:
environmental

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. – Henry Ward Beecher

Category:
Success

I cant understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still havent really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa – 60 percent of people in – infected with HIV are women. – Annie Lennox

Category:
Women

In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. Theyre short, theyre intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article. – Caroline Kennedy

Category:
funny