More From Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
- "The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike."
- "Total absence of humor renders life impossible."
- "There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall."
More In Wisdom
- "Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions."― Gerald Brenan
- "The answer to old age is to keep one’s mind busy and to go on with one’s life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis."― Leon Edel
- "Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency."― John Updike