We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. — Andre Maurois Gunpowder Copy Share Image
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises. — Andre Maurois Inconceivable Copy Share Image
A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body. — Andre Maurois Body Copy Share Image
It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently. — Andre Maurois Education Copy Share Image
Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences. — Andre Maurois Amorous Copy Share Image
Artificial inflation of stocks must be considered a crime as serious as counterfeiting, which it closely resembles. — Andre Maurois Artificial Copy Share Image
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world — Andre Maurois Art Copy Share Image
The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies. — Andre Maurois Book Copy Share Image
The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them… — Andre Maurois Depends Copy Share Image
“Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game is finished, that… — Andre Maurois Age Copy Share Image
“[...] Rumalus on põlata austajad ära siis, kui neid on palju ja nad on noored, ning hakata neile järele jooksma kolmekümne aasta… — André Maurois Copy Share Image
An old man, having retired from active life, regains the gaity and irresponsibility of childhood. He is ready to play, he cannot… — Andre Maurois Active Copy Share Image
People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference… — Andre Maurois Angel Copy Share Image
Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them;… — Andre Maurois Book Copy Share Image
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 Can do Copy Share Image
It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow… — Andre Maurois Duration Copy Share Image
Men and women are not borninconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences. — Andre Maurois Amorous Copy Share Image
You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him. — Andre Maurois Inspirational Copy Share Image
Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true. Everything that is not puts us in a rage. — Andre Maurois Agreement Copy Share Image
If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi". — Andre Maurois New york Copy Share Image
To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights. — Andre Maurois Chosen Copy Share Image
“One might have said that reason made him flee from reason.” — André Maurois Choices Copy Share Image
No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity. — Andre Maurois Creativity Copy Share Image
Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false. — Andre Maurois Ideas Copy Share Image
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. — Andre Maurois Astonished Copy Share Image
We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence. — Andre Maurois Appreciate Copy Share Image
“Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true. Everything that is not puts us into a rage.” — André Maurois Anger Copy Share Image
“We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – gunpowder and romantic love. ” — Andre Maurois Gunpowder Copy Share Image
“O mare dragoste nu este de ajuns pentru a lega de tine fiinta pe care o iubesti, daca nu te pricepi sa… — André Maurois Amor Copy Share Image
Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that… — Andre Maurois Anxiety Copy Share Image
Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved; when she is absent… — Andre Maurois Absent Copy Share Image
To feminine eyes a man's prestige, or his fame, envelops him in a luminous haze which obscures his faults. The triumphs of… — Andre Maurois Actors Copy Share Image
A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into… — Andre Maurois Blood Copy Share Image
Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the… — Andre Maurois Adventure Copy Share Image
We don't go to school to learn, but to be soaked in the prejudices of our class, without which we should be… — Andre Maurois Class Copy Share Image
Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite… — Andre Maurois Civilization Copy Share Image
The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a… — Andre Maurois Age Copy Share Image
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