Sbastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort

"All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little I still know, I've guessed. "

"Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all. "

"Most of today's books have an air of having been written in one day from books read the night before. "

"The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed. "