Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us. Malcolm De Chazal More Quotes by Malcolm De Chazal More Quotes From Malcolm De Chazal In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial. Malcolm De Chazal distance animal looks The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion. Malcolm De Chazal mind heart pregnancy We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes. Malcolm De Chazal smile laughter happiness The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs. Malcolm De Chazal smile flower laughing The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day. Malcolm De Chazal family justice night The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think. Malcolm De Chazal laughing men thinking Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent relieves we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life. Malcolm De Chazal depressing wise life Chins are exclusively a human feature, not to be found among the beasts. Ithey had chins, most animals would look like each other. Malcolm De Chazal animal men looks Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey. Malcolm De Chazal mirrors atheist men In mixed company women practise a kind of visual shorthand that they later decode in detail in other women's company. Malcolm De Chazal details women kind 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. Malcolm De Chazal women talking funny Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating. Malcolm De Chazal ice-cream talking men 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. Malcolm De Chazal sleep animal men The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom. When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies. Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face. Malcolm De Chazal laughter pain eye Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face. Malcolm De Chazal heartless smile laughter The ring always believes that the finger lives for it. Malcolm De Chazal fingers humility believe The ears are the last feature to age. Malcolm De Chazal lasts age ears We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors. Malcolm De Chazal suitors god waiting Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down. Malcolm De Chazal art-is art The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels. Malcolm De Chazal tiptoes idealism high-heels
