Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude. — Andre Maurois Happiness Copy Share Image
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world. — Andre Maurois Art Copy Share Image
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – gunpowder and romantic love. ” — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“One might have said that reason made him flee from reason.” — André Maurois Choices Copy Share Image
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. — Andre Maurois Communication Copy Share Image
British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match; personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and… — Andre Maurois Allusion Copy Share Image
“Doua fiinte umane ancorate una langa cealalta sunt ca doua corabii leganate de valuri; cocile lor se ciocnesc si gem.” — André Maurois Amor Copy Share Image
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly… — Andre Maurois Business Copy Share Image
“Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false, dangerous.” — Andre Maurois Psychology Copy Share Image
He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh, and we shall not know that… — Andre Maurois 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
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
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. — Andre Maurois Communication Copy Share Image
No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity. — Andre Maurois Creativity 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
Men and women are not borninconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences. — Andre Maurois Amorous 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 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
Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences. — Andre Maurois Amorous Copy Share Image
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold. — Andre Maurois Cold Copy Share Image
I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful. — Andre Maurois Death Copy Share Image
The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz. — Andre Maurois 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
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world — Andre Maurois Art Copy Share Image
There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors. — Andre Maurois Ancestor 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
Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to… — Andre Maurois Anxiety 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
“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
The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in… — Andre Maurois Art 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
What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices; it comes down to a commercial dealing… — Andre Maurois Esteem Copy Share Image