D.B.C. Pierre Quotes

Thousands and thousands of colors paint the bosom of the earth so gaily.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

My guitar, I sing of thee 'Tis with thee that I decoy And ensnare enchantingly the ladies I enjoy.

The idea of God is the type and foundation of the principle of authority and absolutism, which it is our task to destroy or at least to subordinate wherever it manifests itself.

It comes a time in your life that you will no longer live for yourself anymore. You never know how much a person can mean to you until one comes into your life, and changes it for the best.

However many snaps I play for, when I'm on the field I go 120 percent.

Your body can dictate your mind... As I'm walking to the Octagon and I act with confidence, my body take over my mind, and I become confident for real.

Patience and time conquer all things.

it is the liberty that is the mother, not the daughter, of order.

The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.

For souls nobly born, valor doesn't await the passing of years

I want to score goals in every match, as many as possible.

My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.

A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

What divides men is less a difference in ideas than a likeness in pretensions.

Whatever future you're building, don't try to program everything.

I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done.

The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.

Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses.

It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.

The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.

And the combat ceased, for want of combatants.

The worst of all States is the democratic State.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

My mother used to have a shop in which she offered very colorful clothes. I liked that from my early days on.

Brave men are brave from the very first. [Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.]

Omnipotence is bought with ceaseless fear.

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.

When great depths of unrelenting sorrow are punctuated by great peaks of joy and liberation, the result is delicious.

The only way to ever truly get your confidence and swagger back, I've learned, is to fight for them.

Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.

It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.

One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions.

Do not think that it is possible to repeat another period.

I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.

My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.

Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.

To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.

The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.

Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.

Olympism is a doctrine of the fraternity between the body and the soul.

Everyone is a threat, and anyone can be beat at any given moment. No one is invincible.

I would love to have a race against Usain Bolt one day! It would certainly be a good challenge for me.

I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.