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Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak.
— Andre Maurois
Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.
— Andre Maurois
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity romantic love and gunpowder. — Andre Maurois
Happiness flourishes where there is happiness.
— Andre Maurois
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
— Andre Maurois
Live as if you were eternal.
— Andre Maurois
One might have said that reason made him flee from reason.
— Andre Maurois
Advice is always a confession.
— Andre Maurois
Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true. Everything that is not puts us into a rage. — Andre Maurois
For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape.
— Andre Maurois
The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.
— Andre Maurois
A gentleman is never in a hurry.
— Andre Maurois
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
— Andre Maurois
To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.
— Andre Maurois
The longer the road to love, the keener is the pleasure.
— Andre Maurois
If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.
— Andre Maurois
We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
— Andre Maurois
An unsatisfied woman requires luxury, but a woman who is in love with a man will lie on a board.
— Andre Maurois
A true woman loves a strong man because she knows his weaknesses. She protects as much as she is protected.
— Andre Maurois
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
— Andre Maurois
Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.
— Andre Maurois
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
— Andre Maurois
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
— Andre Maurois
Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false, dangerous.
— Andre Maurois
I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.
— Andre Maurois
The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.
— Andre Maurois
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
— Andre Maurois
Business is a combination of war and sport.
— Andre Maurois
Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.
— Andre Maurois
Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.
— Andre Maurois
Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.
— Andre Maurois
If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
— Andre Maurois
Our minds have unbelievable power over our bodies.
— Andre Maurois
One has very little influence upon one's children. Their characters are what they are and one can do nothing to change them.
— Andre Maurois
Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.
— Andre Maurois
Without a family,man,alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
— Andre Maurois
A great statesman, like a good housekeeper, knows that cleaning has to be done every morning.
— Andre Maurois
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
— Andre Maurois
There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.
— Andre Maurois
Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
— Andre Maurois
In a discussion, the difficulty lies, not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it.
— Andre Maurois
The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block.
— Andre Maurois
All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.
— Andre Maurois
He who wants to do everything will never do anything.
— Andre Maurois
He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.
— Andre Maurois
The life of a couple is lived on the mental level of the more mediocre of the two beings who compose it.
— Andre Maurois
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
— Andre Maurois
Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
— Andre Maurois
Medicine is a very old joke, but it still goes on.
— Andre Maurois
Ne dites pas trop de mal de vous-meme: on vous croirait. - Don't talk too badly of yourself: they ight believe you.
— Andre Maurois
Style is the outcome of constraint.
— Andre Maurois
There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.
— Andre Maurois
We are almost always the craftsman of our own unhappiness.
— Andre Maurois
Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to penetrate more deeply therein.
— Andre Maurois
A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste.
— Andre Maurois
Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.
— Andre Maurois
The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.
— Andre Maurois
Time is a factor in all action. An imperfect scheme put into action at the proper time is better than a perfect one accomplished too late.
— Andre Maurois
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— Andre Maurois
The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
— Andre Maurois
Inspiration in matters of taste will not come twice.
— Andre Maurois
