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.
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 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
Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness. - Andre Maurois
Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.
Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in… - Andre Maurois
Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in…
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. - Andre Maurois
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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
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.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment. - Andre Maurois
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance. - Andre Maurois
Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. - Andre Maurois
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
Live as if you were eternal. - Andre Maurois
Live as if you were eternal.
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