Andre Maurois
Andre Maurois
André Mauroiswas a French author...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth26 July 1885
CountryFrance
football eye player
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.
adventure soul age
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.
style outcomes constraints
Style is the outcome of constraint.
women rain wife
He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.
novelty attraction
Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.
happiness mind quality
It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow events with its own quality, and we must hope for the duration of this state rather than the recurrence of pleasurable events.
happiness
Happiness flourishes where there is happiness.
perfect-one too-late action
Time is a factor in all action. An imperfect scheme put into action at the proper time is better than a perfect one accomplished too late.
wise mean intelligent
For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape.
bird anxiety cages
Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that his cage, with its bars of anxiety, it is open.
spring real writing
The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.
want
He who wants to do everything will never do anything.
responsibility home doe
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.
love pleasure
The longer the road to love, the keener is the pleasure.