Andre Maurois
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
-Andre Maurois
age
Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
-Andre Maurois
age
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
-Andre Maurois
age
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
-Andre Maurois
alone
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
art
Business is a combination of war and sport.
-Andre Maurois
business
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
-Andre Maurois
business
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
-Andre Maurois
family
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
-Andre Maurois
fitness
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-Andre Maurois
happiness
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
-Andre Maurois
happiness
People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
-Andre Maurois
intelligence
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-Andre Maurois
marriage
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
-Andre Maurois
marriage
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
-Andre Maurois
marriage
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
-Andre Maurois
romantic
Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
-Andre Maurois
smile
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
-Andre Maurois
time
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
-Andre Maurois
truth
Business is a combination of war and sport.
-Andre Maurois
war
Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
-Andre Maurois
women
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
work
The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
-Andre Maurois
work
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