“Medicine is a very old joke, but it still goes on.”

— André Maurois, The Silence of Colonel Bramble (1918), Ch. 17

About André Maurois

1885 – 1967

French author and biographer, author of "The Art of Living".

“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.”

“The blend of admiration and compassion is one of the surest recipes for love.”

“There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.”

“Wit is cultured insolence.”

“A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.”

“The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.”

“Humor is the most engaging cowardice.”

“At bottom the world isn't a joke.”

“This type is the grotesque; its new form is comedy.”