Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak.
A gentleman is never in a hurry.
ANDRÉ MAUROIS, The Silence of Colonel Bramble
Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to penetrate more deeply therein.
ANDRÉ MAUROIS, An Art of Living
Happiness flourishes where there is happiness.
ANDRÉ MAUROIS, An Art of Living
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.
ANDRÉ MAUROIS, The Silence of Colonel Bramble
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.
ANDRÉ MAUROIS, An Art of Living
Style is the outcome of constraint.
ANDRÉ MAUROIS, The Art of Writing
Marriage is not something that can be accomplished all at once; it has to be constantly reaccomplished. A couple must never indulge in idle tranquility with the remark: "The game is won; let's relax." The game is never won. The chances of life are such that anything is possible. Remember what the dangers are for both sexes in middle age. A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
ANDRÉ MAUROIS, An Art of Living
It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently.
ANDRÉ MAUROIS, An Art of Living
A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste.
ANDRÉ MAUROIS, An Art of Living
It is often said that in prosperity we have many friends, but that we are usually neglected when things go badly. I disagree. Not only do malicious people flock about us in order to witness our ruin, but other unfortunates as well, who have been kept away by our happiness, and now feel close to us on account of our troubles.
ANDRÉ MAUROIS, An Art of Living
A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.
ANDRÉ MAUROIS, An Art of Living
It is restful to leave one's home; not because traveling does not entail varied and difficult daily actions, but because it removes our responsibilities.
ANDRÉ MAUROIS, An Art of Living
A man and a woman who, in their young days, agree to have done with sentimental life thereby renounce the search for adventure, the intoxication of new encounters, and the amazing refreshment produced by falling in love again. Their most vital source of energy is cut off; they are doomed to premature insensibility. Their life, scarcely begun, is finished. Nothing can break the monotony of an existence made up of burdens and duties. No further hope, no surprises, no conquests. Their one love will soon be tainted by the cares of housekeeping and the children's education. They will reach old age without ever having known the joys of youth. Marriage destroys romantic love which alone could justify it.
ANDRÉ MAUROIS, An Art of Living
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.
ANDRÉ MAUROIS, An Art of Living
Medicine is a very old joke, but it still goes on.
ANDRÉ MAUROIS, The Silence of Colonel Bramble
Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.
ANDRÉ MAUROIS, An Art of Living
Growing old is no more than a bad habit a busy man has no time to form
ANDRÉ MAUROIS, An Art of Living
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.
ANDRE MAUROIS, "The Art of Leadership", The Art of Living
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