Jean Giraudoux quotes

" Only the mediocre are always at their best. " # Mediocrity

" The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seductiveness of life. " # Flowers # Poetry and Poets # Example

" Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom. " # Education # Wisdom # Stupidity

" There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people... " # Habit # Freedom # Power

" I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management. " # Labor # Management # Discipline

" A golf course is the epitome of all that is transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible. " # Golf

" To win a woman in the first place one must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back on her. Finally, so she will allow you to leave her, you've got to annoy her. " # Dress # Marriage # Friends and Friendship

" In wartime a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away. " # Heroes and Heroism # Love # Life and Living

" No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets truth. " # Quotations # Law and Lawyers # Nature

" A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal. " # Quotations # Immortality # Death and Dying