Philippe BouvardThinkers

Advertising is to consumption what eroticism is to love. Pleasure does not always follow.

Ambition is the noble name one gives to his money problems.

Ambition is a noble name given to the need for money.

An Artist is someone who has managed to transform temperamental faults into professional qualities.

Cynicism is the height of sincerity in a society of hypocrites.

Death is easier when in despair — for despair is to death what cocoa butter is to suppository: A lubricant that makes it easier to pass.

Debt is negative riches.

Democracy is 50% of the bastards plus one.

Democracy is half the idiots, plus one.

Freedom is the right to do anything that does not remind others that they are not free.

The Good old days is all that the memory stores away after eliminating the dismal, and keeping only the best.

Happiness is also often not to do certain things we thought necessary.