Testing Your French

Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

A girl with cotton stockings never sees a mouse. - American Proverb

Where there is no imagination there is no horror. - Arthur Conan Doyle

Don't miss the donut by looking through the hole. - Unknown

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French. - Madeleine Albright

The Possible's slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination. - Emily Dickinson

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

That picture with Lon Chaney - "Of Mouse And Men." - Archie Bunker

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. - James Duval

If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. - Wilfred Sheed

The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. - George R.R. Martin

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. - Albert Einstein

The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. - Steven Wright

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. - Catherine the Great

There are ways of singing in English that are not just the same as in French. - Coeur de Pirate

It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a lawyer's hands. - Spanish Proverb

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

Such a figure, that imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell, to look more frightful. - Charles Johnson

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. - Criss Jami

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. - Ernest Hemingway

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. - Ursula K. Le Guin

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. - Carl Jung

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. - J.W.N. Sullivan

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. - Walt Disney

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. - Lionel Trilling

Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters. - Jan Wong

One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower but imagination that creates. Imagination creates reality. - Richard Wagner

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. - Horace Walpole

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need. - Sara Teasdale

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins