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The poetry of heroism holds an irresistible appeal for people who aren't involved in a war, especially when they're making piles of money out of one. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

To put your trust in men is to get yourself killed a little. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

She was having an attack of knuckleheaded anxiety. Those attacks last a long time. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable. — Ferdinand Mount

The mechanical effort of conversation is nastier and more complicated than defecation. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Priests know how to bury the worst scandals. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

All that makes a lunatic are the very ordinary ideas of mankind shut up inside a man's head. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

She glorified in her unmarried-mother act. In — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Our club captain Gary Neville's been out for a year now, but Giggsy has taken up the mantelpiece — Rio Ferdinand

Someone now has to step up and take on the mantelpiece — Rio Ferdinand

He's fiddling around in his pocket ... nothing to worry about ... all the young ones fiddle around in their pockets ... a pistol? an erection? — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Flowing water makes men meditative. They urinate with a sense of eternity like sailors. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

To make a long story short, you're all vile, dangerous, cowardly ... — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Most people don't die until the last moment; others start twenty years in advance, sometimes more. Those are the unfortunates. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Everything's permissible internally. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

You are always flattered when big clubs are interested in you. — Rio Ferdinand

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. — Ferdinand Foch

People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

I have never voted in my life ... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost. — Ferdinand Foch

Our life is a journey, through winter and night, We look for our way, in a sky without light. (Song of the Swiss Guards, 1793) — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND. 1863-1914. LLIE LIGHTLY UPON HIM EARTH, THO' HE / LAID MANY A HEAVY BURDEN UPON THEE. — John Green

That's the way it goes. You can't deny it, men have a hard time doing all that's demanded of them: butterflies in their youth, maggots at the end. I — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Only in a popular war against France ... do I see a misfortune. — Ferdinand Lassalle

Lie, copulate, and die. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes. — Ferdinand Mount

A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence. — Ferdinand Mount

Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

I set myself high standards on the pitch and I know I have not always lived up to them this season. — Rio Ferdinand

There's no tyrant like a brain. Below — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

You get a bad result one week and it's a natural reaction to go out in the next game and put it behind you and do well. — Rio Ferdinand

The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts. — Ferdinand Porsche

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The beginning of genius is being scared shitless. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Crime, carefully planned and executed, is demonstrably the royal high road to pecuniary success in the United States. — Ferdinand Lundberg

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other. — Ferdinand De Saussure

DUCHESS: Diamonds are of most value,
They say, that have past through most jewellers' hands.
FERDINAND: Whores, by that rule, are precious. — John Webster

Where timber vegetation is ruthlessly destroyed, aridity and its sequence sterility will prevail and the hotter the climate, the more to be dreaded. — Ferdinand Von Mueller

In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded. — Ferdinand Piech

To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The best thing to do when you're in this world, don't you agree, is to get out of it. Crazy or not, scared or not. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

what? When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves. From — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

At times, European football can be very slow but it speeds up in the final third. — Rio Ferdinand

Our lives are quite boring. I spend a lot of time watching Coronation Street and Eastenders. — Rio Ferdinand

History doesn't pass the dishes again. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

History isn't through with me yet. — Ferdinand Marcos

If you fire people, you fire customers. — Ferdinand Piech

You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Don't drown yourself in details. Look at the whole. — Ferdinand Foch

At ninety-eight point six everything is boring. Yet — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

They'd put their flesh and spirit into that house of theirs, like a snail. But the snail doesn't know what he's doing. The — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's "yes," all's well. That is enough. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

For me, the biggest idiot will always be John Terry, — Rio Ferdinand

Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

I'm almost never serious, and I'm always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I'm like a collection of paradoxes. — Ferdinand De Saussure

Troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief ... — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows . — Ferdinand Foch

Hjalmar ... is holding him, he'd put the handcuff on him ... one, not two ... he only had one ... — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

It's great to see young players like Kieran coming out and not being intimidated by it.
(on Kieran Richardson) — Rio Ferdinand

Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act. — Ferdinand Lassalle

Apologists for the profession contend that lawyers are as honest as other men, but this is not very encouraging. — Ferdinand Lundberg

Man never has what he wants, because what he wants is everything. — Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz

If it is your duty to croak like the toad, then
go ahead! And with all your might! Make them
hear you! — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Reason died in 1914, November 1914 ... after that everybody began to rave ... — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack. — Ferdinand Foch

When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella. — Theodore White

Life...is like the chameleon, changing colour all the time. — Ferdinand Oyono

When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling of unity which delights you and makes you giddy. — Ferdinand Hodler

It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general. — Ferdinand Foch

In fatigue and solitude men emanate the divine. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

No study is possible on the battlefield. — Ferdinand Foch

I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung. — Ferdinand Marcos

Tenderness is total love, whereas justice is only a part of love, though it believes itself, mistakenly, to be the whole. — Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz

Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture. — Ferdinand Lassalle

I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Women always have some mental reservation. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The work of art will bring to light a new order inherent in things, and this will be: the idea of unity. — Ferdinand Hodler

Little boys have amazing minds. — Ferdinand Marcos

There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

I piss on you all from a considerable height. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Maybe that's what we look for all our lives, the worst possible grief, to make us truly ourselves before we die. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

I will be gutted if Roy does go because I would far rather he stayed at Old Trafford.
(on Roy Keane leaving Manchester United) — Rio Ferdinand

Frankly, just between you and me, I'm ending up even worse than I started ... — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Victory is a thing of the will. — Ferdinand Foch

The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might. — Ferdinand Lassalle

A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas. — Ferdinand De Saussure

Who were the best players I had ever played against? Raul, Messi, Zidane. — Rio Ferdinand

I didn't know how many people knew who Ferdinand was. — Elliott Smith

In the beginning I looked around and, not finding the automobile of my dreams, decided to build it myself. — Ferdinand Porsche

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The unknown is the governing principle of war. — Ferdinand Foch

Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Architecture is the alpha principle of all arts. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

During my career several people have tried to push me out the door ... Nobody has succeeded yet. — Ferdinand Piech

The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine