 Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down. |
| We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors. |
| The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels. |
| The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion. |
| Women make us poets, children make us philosophers. |
| 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 beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings. |
| Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating. |
| Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face. |
| The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs. |
| 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 his mind. |
| Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us. |
| The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think. |
| We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes. |
| The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day. Topics: Family |
| The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable. |
| Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey. |
