1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne – [Marriage]
A man should ever be ready booted to take his journey.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne – [Travel and Tourism]
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne – [Potential]
After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne – [Sex]
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne – [Age and Aging]
All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne – [Fame]
All the world knows me in my book, and may book in me.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne – [Writers and Writing]
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne – [Ambition]
An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne – [Chastity]
But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne – [Dreams]
Confidence in another person's virtue is no light evidence of your own.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne – [Confidence]
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne – [Death and Dying]
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne – [Death and Dying]
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne – [Girls]
Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne – [Success]
Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne – [Books and Reading]
Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne – [Example]
Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne – [Patience]
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne – [Servants]
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne – [Children]