Quotes of Jean Baptiste Colbert

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The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing.

- Jean Baptiste Colbert

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“ There is a distinct, awful pain that comes with loving someone more than they love you. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand. ”

- Stephen King

“ the saddest thing is to be a minute to someone, when you've made them your eternity. ”

- Sanober Khan

“ Gratitude is not love. Don’t mix the two because they are not the same. ”

- Frank Matobo

“ I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet! ”

- John Green

“ If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be. ”

- Wanda E. Brunstetter

“ We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again. ”

- Rick Riordan

“ Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. ”

- Joan Crawford

“ Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. ”

- Anais Nin

“ A good idea always attracts other good ideas. ”

- Patrick Ness

“ Your big opportunity may be right where you are now. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ No matter what you do in life, make sure your juniors are learning something good from you. ”

- Parul Prashar

“ You are successful in my book if you do what you love for a living; you do not owe money to anyone; you have a place what you call home; you have a wife/husband, a girlfriend/boyfriend, or a partner who loves and respects you; and most importantly, you are surrounded by friends and loved ones who stand by you in good and bad days. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ So many reasons to hate and still I choose to love anyway... ”

- Samiha Totanji

“ Legacy is greater than currency ”

- Gary Vaynerchuk

“ I love women, but I feel like you can’t trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog’s name. Then I said, ‘Does he bite?’ She said, ‘No.’ And I said, ‘Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?’ Liar. ”

- Demetri Martin

“ What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. ”

- Helen Keller

“ To pay gratitude, sign of generosity. ”

- Shekhar Srivastava

“ Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good. ”

- P.C. Cast

“ All worries are less with wine. ”

- Amit Kalantri

“ Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. ”

- Michael Novak

“ The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children. ”

- Karl Lagerfeld

“ I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy. ”

- Helen Fisher

“ The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why ”

- Mark Twain