Jules Romains

“Old men are fond of giving good advice, to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.”

“A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.”

“War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.”

“Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.”

“The best doctor is the one you run for and can't find.”

“We think so because all other people think so; or because--or because--after all, we do think so; or because we were told so, and think we must think so.”

“A pretty woman is a welcome accident.”

“I am not so much a man as a moment of mankind.”

“A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.”

“The people who live in a small town and who aren't ashamed of it are the people you can't shame.”

“The great truth is there isn't one.”

“The big towns are hoarding all the pretty girls.”

“The world is not a piece of property to be inherited by a few.”