Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
"Pierre-Jules Renard" or "Jules Renard" was a France/French author and member of the Académie Goncourt, most famous for the works Poil de carotte (Carrot Top) (1894) and Les Histoires Naturelles (Nature Stories) (1896). Among his other works are Le Plaisir de rompre (The Pleasure of Breaking) (1898) and Huit jours à la campagne (A Week in the Country) (1906).
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous dramatists! More Jules Renard on Wikipedia.I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
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.
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
La peur de l'ennui est la seule excuse du travail. - Boredom is the only excuse for work.
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
Look for the ridiculous in everything and you find it.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
A cold in the head cause less suffering than an idea.
I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
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