Jules Renard

“Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.”

“Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.”

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

“I am never bored anywhere; being bored is an insult to oneself.”

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

“Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.”

“If money does not make you happy, give it back.”

“Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.”

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

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

“It is not enough to be happy, one must be happy and others not.”

“We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it.”

“Culture is what's left after you've forgotten everything.”

“Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.”

“A mediocrity who talks is a formidable thing.”

“Add two letters to Paris and it's paradise.”

“Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.”

“A man who has children can't afford to be a coward.”

“A definition is what saves the lazy thinker from thinking.”

“The ideal is a bore. It's the contrast that's interesting.”