Marcel Achard famous quotes

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
-- Marcel Achard

#Inspirational #Men #Thinking

It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.
-- Marcel Achard

#Home #Men #Risk

Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend.
-- Marcel Achard

#Funny #Women #Passion

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.
-- Marcel Achard

#Political #Way #Strange

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.
-- Marcel Achard

#Writing #Careers #Firsts

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard

#People #Giving #Watches

The lower one speaks the closer a woman listens.
-- Marcel Achard

#Speak

The most dangerous food a man can eat is wedding cake. Woman like silent men, they think they are listening.
-- Marcel Achard

#Wedding #Thinking #Men

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

The things that make me different are the things that make me.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.