26th February: Victor Hugo

26 February 1802 was the birth date of Victor Hugo. Here are 10 Victor Hugo quotes:

1. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
2. Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
3. When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
4. Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
5. Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
6. The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
7. Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
8. All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
9. The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
10. Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.