Famous quotes containing the words jacques chirac, jacques, cohabitation, desert and/or crossing:
“I am not prepared to accept the economics of a housewife.”
—Jacques Chirac (b. 1932)
“I’ve learned one thing about life. We’re a good deal like that ball, dancing on the fountain. We know as little about the forces that move us, and move the world around us, as that empty ball does.”
—Ardel Wray, Edward Dien, and Jacques Tourneur. Dr. Galbraith(James Bell)
“Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
“For beauty, wit,
High birth, vigor of bone, desert in service,
Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all
To envious and calumniating time.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Twenty men crossing a bridge,
Into a village,
Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges,
Into twenty villages,
Or one man
Crossing a single bridge into a village.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)