Sunday, May 8, 2011

Andre Maurois

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Andre Maurois

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
Andre Maurois

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
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

Business is a combination of war and sport.
Andre Maurois

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
Andre Maurois

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Andre Maurois

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
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

If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.
Andre Maurois

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
Andre Maurois

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
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

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
Andre Maurois

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
Andre Maurois

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
Andre Maurois

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

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

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
Andre Maurois

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
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Biography
Type: Writer
Nationality: French
Born: July 26, 1885
Died: October 9, 1967

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