Jules Renard
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.Collection: Love
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.Collection: Success
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.Collection: Age
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.Collection: Alone
It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.Collection: Anger
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.Collection: Inspirational
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.Collection: Nature
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.Collection: Finance
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.Collection: Success
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.Collection: Time
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.Collection: Funny
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.
Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.
We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.
We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
Fame is a constant effort.
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
Words are the small change of thought.
The bourgeois are other people.
Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.Collection: 4th Of July
When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.Collection: Faults
As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.Collection: Love
Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.Collection: Writing
Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.Collection: People
There are no friends; only moments of friendship.Collection: No Friends
When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.Collection: Book
If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider.Collection: Gratitude
Being bored is an insult to oneself.Collection: Funny
Only in this world do we laugh: in hell, it won't be possible; and in heaven, it won't be proper.Collection: Laughter
I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.Collection: Memories
It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.Collection: Hero
It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.Collection: Turns
We must be greater than God, for we have to undo His injustice.Collection: Injustice
It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.Collection: Happiness
To think is not enough, you must think of something.Collection: Inspiring