Logo
Quote by Andre Maurois
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity --

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity — gunpowder and romantic love. – Andre Maurois

Other quotes by Andre Maurois

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences. – Andre Maurois

Category:
Women
Author
Andre Maurois
Read Quote

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. – Andre Maurois

Category:
Art
Author
Andre Maurois
Read Quote

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. – Andre Maurois

Category:
Happiness
Author
Andre Maurois
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Inventing, Inventions
category

The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure. – Lyndon B. Johnson

Category:
Inventing, Inventions

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly; in any other sense than a mans house is a monopoly. – Daniel Webster

Category:
Inventing, Inventions

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. – Thomas Alva Edison

Category:
Inventing, Inventions

Random Quotes

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. – Gail Godwin

Category:
Teachers

Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity. Waste not the smallest time in imbecile infirmity, for well thou knowest that seconds form eternity. – E. Knight

Category:
Carpe Diem

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Category:
Art

The ugly is in poetry only a passing shadow. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

Category:
Poetry