The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom. When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies. Laughter is region….

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 ….

The ears are the last feature to age..

In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial..

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face..

The ring always believes that the finger lives for it..

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 ….

The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day..

We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors..

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey..

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think..

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..

Chins are exclusively a human feature, not to be found among the beasts. Ithey had chins, most animals would look like each other..

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers..

In mixed company women practise a kind of visual shorthand that they later decode in detail in other women's company..

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs..

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us..

Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating..

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down..

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels..

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes..