Famous quotes containing the words maurois and/or biography:
“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.”
—André Maurois (1885–1967)
“The death of Irving, which at any other time would have attracted universal attention, having occurred while these things were transpiring, went almost unobserved. I shall have to read of it in the biography of authors.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)