Logo
Quote by Andre Gide
The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a

The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities…. I listen to them and they go away delighted. – Andre Gide

Other quotes by Andre Gide

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced. – Andre Gide

Category:
alone
Author
Andre Gide
Read Quote

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. – Andre Gide

Category:
Art
Author
Andre Gide
Read Quote

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon. – Andre Gide

Category:
Beauty
Author
Andre Gide
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Listening
category

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. – Pearl Bailey

Category:
Listening

Listen to life, and you will hear the voice of life crying, Be! – James Dillet Freeman

Category:
Listening

“Silent” and “listen” are spelled with the same letters. – Author Unknown

Category:
Listening

Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak. – Epictetus

Category:
Listening

Random Quotes

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? – Dr. Seuss

Category:
Time

Life is short but there is always time for courtesy. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Social Aims

Category:
Kindness

All those vitamins arent to keep death at bay, theyre to keep deterioration at bay. – Jeanne Moreau

Category:
Death

How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us. – Fred Rogers

Category:
sad