Quote #39

There are three roads to ruin: by gambling, which is the quickest; through women, which is the most pleasurable; and through taking the advice of experts, which is the most certain.

More from Charles de Gaulle

  1. I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
  2. In the name of policy, change your friends.
  3. To General Jacques Massu : Alors Massu, toujours aussi con ? (So, Massu, still that stupid?)
  4. Within ten years we shall have whatever is necessary to kill 80 million Russians. Well I reckon one does not light-heartly attack people wh…
  5. That's a tall order, indeed.
  6. Brazil is not a serious country.
  7. You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
  8. Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

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