Andre Maurois
Andre Maurois
André Mauroiswas a French author...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth26 July 1885
CountryFrance
medicine goes-on old-jokes
Medicine is a very old joke, but it still goes on.
football eye player
To feminine eyes a man's prestige, or his fame, envelops him in a luminous haze which obscures his faults. The triumphs of an aviator, an actor, a football player, an orator are often responsible for the beginning of a love affair.
men waste combat
A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste.
adventure soul age
Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the body; it renders adventure and friendship difficult; and finally it is shadowed by thoughts of death.
school class unhappy
We don't go to school to learn, but to be soaked in the prejudices of our class, without which we should be useless and unhappy.
morning done cleaning
A great statesman, like a good housekeeper, knows that cleaning has to be done every morning.
style outcomes constraints
Style is the outcome of constraint.
men order ideas
Stupidity is a factor to be reckoned with in human affairs. The true leader always expects to encounter it, and prepares to endure it patiently so long as it is normal stupidity. He knows that his ideas will be distorted, his orders carelessly executed; and that there will be jealousy among his assistants. He takes these inevitable phenomena into account, and instead of attempting to find men without faults, who are non-existent, he tries to make use of the best men at his disposal - as they are, and not as they ought to be.
games boxing hitting
British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match; personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and anyone who loses his temper is disqualified.
self-esteem men office
What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices; it comes down to a commercial dealing in which self-esteem always expects to profit.
teaching teach
It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently.
women infidelity born
Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
attitude mind body
Our minds have unbelievable power over our bodies.
song drama flower
A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.