Occupation: Writer Birth: September 12, 1902 Death: October 1, 1981
Chins are exclusively a human feature, not to be found among the beasts. Ithey had chins, most animals would look like each other..
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down..
The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day..
The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom. When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies. Laughter is region….
Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us..
In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial..
Women make us poets, children make us philosophers..
Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey..
In mixed company women practise a kind of visual shorthand that they later decode in detail in other women's company..
The ring always believes that the finger lives for it..
The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think..
The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels..
Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating..
We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes..
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of ….
Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in ….
We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors..
Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face..
The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs..
A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking..
The ears are the last feature to age..