Quotes by Malcolm Chazal

• Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.
• Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.
• We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
• We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.
• The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.
• The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
• The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
• A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
• The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
• The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.
• Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.
• Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
• The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.
• Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
• Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
• The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.
• Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.