Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.
The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.
In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.
The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent relieves we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.
The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
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.
We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.
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.
Chins are exclusively a human feature, not to be found among the beasts. Ithey had chins, most animals would look like each other.
Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.
The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.
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.
Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.
The ring always believes that the finger lives for it.
The ears are the last feature to age.
