Jules Renard Quotes - BrainyQuote

French - Dramatist February 22, 1864 - May 22, 1910

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. - Jules Renard

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. Jules Renard

Love Brain Heart

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. - Jules Renard

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. Jules Renard

Nature Heaven Earth

It is not how old you are, but how you are old. - Jules Renard

It is not how old you are, but how you are old. Jules Renard

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. - Jules Renard

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. Jules Renard

Funny Tired Resting

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. - Jules Renard

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. Jules Renard

Inspirational Waiting Action

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. Jules Renard

God Better Reputation

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right. - Jules Renard

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right. Jules Renard

Try Right Afraid

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. Jules Renard

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. - Jules Renard

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. Jules Renard

Calm Sitting Ideal

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. Jules Renard

Anger Storm Thinking

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Jules Renard
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As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more. Jules Renard

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. - Jules Renard

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. Jules Renard

Success Failure Punishment

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you. Jules Renard

Woman Will Roads

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice. Jules Renard

Success World Injustice

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries. - Jules Renard

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries. Jules Renard

Finance Man Know

Fame is a constant effort. Jules Renard

Effort Fame Constant

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. Jules Renard

Man Dinner Free

A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea. Jules Renard

Suffering Cold Head

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. - Jules Renard

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. Jules Renard

Alone World Places

Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred. Jules Renard

Talent Matter Three

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins. Jules Renard

Always Words Small

We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life. Jules Renard

Life Mystery Talking

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. Jules Renard

Money Writing Ridiculous

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it. Jules Renard

Space Empty Space Empty

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead. Jules Renard

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened. Jules Renard

Everything Well Moments

Words are the small change of thought. Jules Renard

Change Words Thought

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not. Jules Renard

I Am Sincere Say

Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart. Jules Renard

Brain Heart Socialism

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings. Jules Renard

Beautiful Feet Wings

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock. Jules Renard

Truth Power Least

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. Jules Renard

The bourgeois are other people. Jules Renard

People Other Bourgeois

We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest. Jules Renard

Happy Others Interest

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