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
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile. – Jean Giraudoux
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. – Jean Giraudoux
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
My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society. – Andrew Weil