Andre Maurois Quotes

In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone.

It seems unfortunate that strong people are usually so disagreeable and overbearing that no one cares for them. In fact, to be different from your fellow creatures is always a misfortune.

In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.

There's always going to be someone who hates you. There's always going to be people who love you. It's a risk in either direction.

Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your hat has got a hole in it. So have your breeches.

All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.

Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.

Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune - really anything, everything - to their advantage.

For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.

Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.

Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.

You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do.

it's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people

Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing.

I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature recognition of my own psychological vulnerability and my lack of suitability as a companion. Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as i struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life.

It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.

Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever.

At the same time, though, I was beginning to wonder if this was just how it was supposed to be for me, like perhaps I wasn't capable of having that many people in my life at any one time. My mom turned up, Nate walked away, one door opening as another clicked shut.

It seems like every time I break up with someone they try to take all my friends. It sucks because your friends are the people you need the most when you are in pain.

Some people give gifts in order to bewilder, confuse, and manipulate their recipients.

In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.

Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content.

Why bad things happen to good people