We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.
Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.
We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.