The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
ANDRE MAUROISThe first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
ANDRE MAUROISThe effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
ANDRE MAUROISIn literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
ANDRE MAUROISNo one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
ANDRE MAUROISOld age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations.
ANDRE MAUROISStyle is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
ANDRE MAUROISThe most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
ANDRE MAUROISPeople are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence.
ANDRE MAUROISA happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
ANDRE MAUROISAn artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
ANDRE MAUROISGrowing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
ANDRE MAUROISIf you value a man’s regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper – and despise it.
ANDRE MAUROISIf men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
ANDRE MAUROISWe appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
ANDRE MAUROISWe owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.
ANDRE MAUROISIf 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