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Andre Maurois (Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog)

(1885 – 1967) A French author and man of letters. Many of his works have been translated into English. His Maurois pseudonym became his legal name in 1947.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.

The life of a couple is lived on the mental level of the more mediocre of the two beings who compose it.

The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

Who in Europe, or America, for that matter, knows that Kansas City is one of the loveliest cities on earth? And yet it is true.