Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

You don't know love if you don't know Andre.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.

Old 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. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people.

We are all androgynous, not only because we are all born of a woman impregnated by the seed of a man but because each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other -- male in female, female in male, white in black and black in white. We are a part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity -- gunpowder and romantic love.

Style [Is] the hallmark of a temperament stamped on the material in hand.

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

The first recipe for happiness is Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.

Modesty and unselfishness--these are the virtues which men praise--and pass by.

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

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

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.

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.

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

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

If 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.

Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

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

There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

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 a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Andrew is so incredibly reliable that almost any printing command will work, as long as it is long and complex enough...

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

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

"Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

Andrew is the operating system of the future and always will be.