Logo
Quote by André Maurois
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open m

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain. РAndr̩ Maurois

Other quotes by André Maurois

A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body. РAndr̩ Maurois

Category:
Past
Author
André Maurois
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Self
category

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. – Jane Austen

Category:
Self

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past. – H.F. Hedge

Category:
Self

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938

Category:
Self

Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Self

Random Quotes

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism. – Thomas Sowell

Category:
best

When I was a new mom, I used to think that life was going to be balanced, and I strived for that. But life is crazy! – Brooke Burke

Category:
mom

The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth. – Frank Sinatra

Category:
Music

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. – Honore de Balzac

Category:
Inheritance