We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.

In mixed company women practise a kind of visual shorthand that they later decode in detail in other women's company.

In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.