#paris

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason. ↗

— Albert Pike

#comparison #discovery #divine #doubt #doubting

Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#class #curate #five #i #kent

But the only comparison that I want to Lenny Bruce is that I'm funny. I'm Freddie Prinze, Puerto Rican all the way. ↗

— Freddie Prinze

#comparison #freddie #funny #i #lenny

My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#efforts #god #had #i #leave

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris. ↗

— Orville Wright

#fly #flying #machine #new #new york

The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw. ↗

— Humphry Davy

#collection #contain #ever #finest #frames

There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did. ↗

— Owen Hart

#bit #bret #comparison #dad #did

I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#consideration #enjoyed #had #i #into

Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#city #due #fact #immensely #just

I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start making generalizations about how bad things have become in comparison to the old days. ↗

— Jeffrey Jones

#bad #become #comparison #cyclical #days