Famous quotes containing the words jacques chirac, cohabitation, desert and/or crossing:
“I am not prepared to accept the economics of a housewife.”
—Jacques Chirac (b. 1932)
“Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
“Full many a gem of purest ray serene,
The dark unfathom’d caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)
“Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece. In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)