QUOTATIONS by AUTHOR
Education
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
-Jean Giraudoux
Golf
A golf course is the epitome of all that is transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.
-Jean Giraudoux , The Enchanted , 1933
Habits
There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people...
-Jean Giraudoux
Labor
I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.
-Jean Giraudoux
Mediocrity
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
-Jean Giraudoux
Plants
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
-Jean Giraudoux , The Enchanted , 1933
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