The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole FranceOf all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.
Anatole FranceIt is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.
Anatole FranceUgly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.
Anatole France