Sister Jacques Marie

Famous quotes containing the words sister, jacques and/or marie:

    “I said in my novel that the clergyman is a kind of human Sunday. Jones and I settled that my sister May was a kind of human Good Friday and Mrs. Bovill an Easter Monday or some other Bank Holiday.”
    —Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

    “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)

    “After the earthquake, which had destroyed three-quarters of Lisbon, the country’s wise men had found no more efficacious means of preventing total ruin than to give the people a fine auto-da-fé.”
    —Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)