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

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

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

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

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom. When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies. Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.