Old age is a shipwreck.
- Charles De Gaulle - In Old Age
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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
- Charles Baudelaire - In Art
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An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
- Charles Horton Cooley - In Art
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One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
- Charles Horton Cooley - In Art
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For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is "take-home pay" because home is the only place they can afford to go with it.
- Charles A. Jaffe - In Business
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It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.
- Charles A. Jaffe - In Business
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Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.
- Charles A. Jaffe - In Business
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Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do.
- Charles A. Jaffe - In Business
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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
- Charles Kettering - In Business
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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
- Charles Kettering - In On Change
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Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.
- Charles Lindbergh - In Dreams
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Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.
- Prince Charles - In History
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
- Charles De Gaulle - In History
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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
- Charles De Gaulle - In History
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How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?
- Charles De Gaulle - In History
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A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
- Charles Caleb Colton - In Intelligence
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I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
- Charles Schulz - In Life
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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton - In Love
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Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
- Charles Caleb Colton - In Marriage
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How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?
- Charles Lindbergh - In Nature
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In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
- Charles Lindbergh - In Nature
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Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire - In Poetry
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Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
- Charles Simic - In Poetry
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Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
- Charles Simic - In Poetry
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
- Charles De Gaulle - In Politics
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
- Charles De Gaulle - In Politics
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Most of us are honest all the time, and all of us are honest most of the time.
- Charles McC Mathias, Jr. - In Politics
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I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition: the brown bag. Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home.
- Charles McC Mathias, Jr. - In Politics
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Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.
- Charles Krauthammer - In Politics
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Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.
- Charles Caleb Colton - In Religion
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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
- Charles Kettering - In Science
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There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
- Charles Pierce - In Science
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Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
- Charles Horton Cooley - In Society
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You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
- Charles Kuralt - In Society
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If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
- Charles Barkley - In Sports
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My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.
- Charles Barkley - In Sports
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These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.
- Charles Barkley - In Sports
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You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.
- Charles Barkley - In Sports
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Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.
- Charles Luckman - In Success
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Everything that can be invented, has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell - In Technology
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
- Charles Caleb Colton - In Time
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Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.
- Charles Sumner - In War
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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
- Charles Dickens - In Words to the Wise
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