Antoine Rivarol Quotes

I always think of the good comebacks on the car ride home.

If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.

They think they have God Almighty by the toe.

The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

Of all spells that could be cast on a nation, that of believing itself invincible was perhaps the one most profitable broken …

It is like a disease to think that an invincible status has been achieved after being satisfied with the past successful operations.

I hate that 'I got it' stuff. That drives me nuts. It's that natural instinct that everything's OK because you're winning.

I am not taking anything for granted.

Woe, to think about having success in your pocket.

I fell for my own hype. I had too many people saying I couldn't be beat, and I actually fell for it.

The kick [of comedy] is to think quickly. It's a great kick.

Never will man penetrate deeper into error than when he is continuing on a road which has led him to great success

The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.

You must have a twinkle in your eye, a naughtiness - and the audience must realize your mind is working faster than your words.

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.

Wit saves us from being swallowed whole by life.

Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.

Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.

We think that we are invincible because we are.

Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence .

Calvin: I'm a genius. I can't believe how smart I am. ...I've got more brains than I know what to do with. Hobbes: So I've noticed.

The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.