Jules Renard's Quotes

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

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

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

Jules Renard

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

Jules Renard

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

Jules Renard

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

Jules Renard

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

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

Jules Renard