Famous quotes containing the words marquis de, marquis and/or mirabeau:
“Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.”
—Luc, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747)
“now and then
there is a person born
who is so unlucky
that he runs into accidents
which started out to happen
to somebody else”
—Don Marquis (1878–1937)
“To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.”
—Honoré Gabriel Riquet, Comte De Mirabeau (1749–1791)