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

Author: Andre Maurois

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

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

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

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

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

Love is when two people know everything about each other and are still friends.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.