Francesco Quotes
Collection of top 75 famous quotes about Francesco
Francesco Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Francesco quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
I'm not interested in just beautiful girls and beautiful clothes.
— Francesco Carrozzini
Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.
— Francesco Guicciardini
When I look at a drawing of a person, I look at that person as living.
— Francesco Clemente
Francesco Damiani punches with all the violence and bad intentions of Mahatma Gandhi.
— Jerry Izenberg
Now we were united, strong, friends, and something more.
— Francesco D'Adamo
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
— Francesco Petrarca
walk forwards in the radiance of the past
— Francesco Petrarca
My name actually is Francesco Castaluccio.
— Frankie Valli
Blessed be the eyes that saw her while she lived!" 310
— Francesco Petrarca
Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
— Francesco Guicciardini
Winning one league title at Roma to me is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.
— Francesco Totti
Books are the true means of acquiring talent. If one does not read one remains ignorant, and ignorance can never produce true painters.
— Francesco Albani
To have displeased evil and ignorant men is the sure sign of genius and virtue...
— Francesco Petrarca
How do you know, poor fool? Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence'; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
— Francesco Petrarca
Sometimes when I lie on your warm chest
And hear your every happy sigh
I gaze into your two kind eyes
And wonder, 'Who is that? — Francesco Marciuliano
And hear your every happy sigh
I gaze into your two kind eyes
And wonder, 'Who is that? — Francesco Marciuliano
I have to thank you ... because you have so often helped me forget the evils of today.
— Francesco Petrarca
Because I grew up playing for Roma and I want to die playing for Roma, because I have always been a Roma's fan!
— Francesco Totti
Good Chianti, that aged, majestic and proud wine, enlivens my heart, and frees it painlessly from all fatigue and sadness.
— Francesco Redi
I'm sorry, I don't speak English.
— Francesco Totti
I always saw photography as a way to get to film.
— Francesco Carrozzini
There is only one player who is doing things that I could never do - and that is Messi.
— Francesco Totti
We will work as a group, we need to be a real team, that is the only way to go far
— Francesco Totti
Be more guided by hope than fear.
— Francesco Guicciardini
In India and in New York the economy is naked. People are starving physically in India, and emotionally in New York.
— Francesco Clemente
Sweet is the death that taketh end by love.
— Francesco Petrarca
They say there are
Twenty-four hours in a day
But I'm only up for three of them
And two I consider overtime — Francesco Marciuliano
Twenty-four hours in a day
But I'm only up for three of them
And two I consider overtime — Francesco Marciuliano
To me the poets are closer than I am to the idea of voice, to a sort of primeval song that we all participate in.
— Francesco Clemente
One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
— Francesco Guicciardini
It is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear.
— Francesco Guicciardini
There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.
— Francesco Quinn
We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.
— Francesco Guicciardini
Best not to ask "What is it?" until you finish rolling in it.
— Francesco Marciuliano
Loving friendship is able to endure everything; it refuses no burden.
— Francesco Petrarca
To the aircraft I aim, not the man.
— Francesco Baracca
It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.
— Francesco Guicciardini
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
— Francesco Petrarca
My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.
— Francesco Clemente
I first think of intelligence. You need it for surviving in Italy because Italy is so pompous.
— Francesco Clemente
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
— Francesco Petrarca
We were wolves once / Wild and wary / Then we noticed you had sofas
— Francesco Marciuliano
Everything else, every thought, goes fore and forever fades away into the recesses of time, and therein what remains is my soul's love for you.
— Francesco Petrarca
Fashion is the pursuit of perfection, Style is the acceptance of one's flaws.
— Francesco Clemente
Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.
— Francesco Guicciardini
I wish to go beyond the fire that burns me.
— Francesco Petrarca
I am possessed by one insatiable passion , which I cannot restrain nor would I if I could ... I cannot get enough books .
— Francesco Petrarca
Shame is the fruit of my vanities, and remorse, and the clearest knowledge of how the world's delight is a brief dream.
— Francesco Petrarca
Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.
— Francesco Guicciardini
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
— Francesco Petrarca
Learning is my sole delight.
— Francesco Petrarca
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance
to make them. — Francesco Guicciardini
to make them. — Francesco Guicciardini
Steven Gerrard would be the captain of my World XI dream team.
— Francesco Totti
I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.
— Francesco Guicciardini
He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable.
— Francesco Guicciardini
Never would I trade for some new shape
that laurel I was first, in whose sweet shade
all other pleasures vanish in my heart. — Francesco Petrarca
that laurel I was first, in whose sweet shade
all other pleasures vanish in my heart. — Francesco Petrarca
Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
— Francesco Guicciardini
The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
— Francesco Guicciardini
The Holy Father has acted as the Vicar of Christ and acted like Christ himself, who never refused to talk to anyone.
— Francesco Cossiga
[He who can describe how his heart is ablaze is burning on a small pyre] ~ Petrarch, Sonnet 137
(from Montaigne, On sadness) — Francesco Petrarca
(from Montaigne, On sadness) — Francesco Petrarca
As far as concerns the army, I don't know which people among us can claim to be more disciplined and closer to the order of the Romans than the Turks.
— Francesco Sansovino
Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.
— Francesco Guicciardini
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
— Francesco Petrarca
He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.
— Francesco Guicciardini
Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, 'How do you do it?' But, hopefully, it is beautiful.
— Francesco Clemente
Libri quosdam ad scientiam, quosdam ad insaniam deduxere. (Books have led some to knowledge and some to madness.)
— Francesco Petrarca
I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels.
— Francesco Clemente
One day instead the old woman said kind words to her and gave her an awning on a stick to keep rain off (there has been much rain in purgatorium)
— Ali Smith
That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives.
— Francesco Clemente
There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.
— Francesco Guicciardini
I repeatedly refuse to make any practical decisions. I get a feeling of nausea about practicality.
— Francesco Clemente
Friends, or frenemies?
— Francesco Sedita
The world's delight is a brief dream.
— Francesco Petrarca