1882-1944, French Diplomat, Author
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
Jean Giraudoux – [Education]
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 – [Labor]
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
Jean Giraudoux – [Mediocrity]
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Jean Giraudoux – [Flowers]
There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people…
Jean Giraudoux – [Habit]