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.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
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.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
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.
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 finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.
An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
The bourgeois are other people.
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
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.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
Fame is a constant effort.
Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.
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.
Words are the small change of thought.
A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.
