A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
~ Jules Renard - [Poetry and Poets]

A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
~ Jules Renard - [Suffering]

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.
~ Jules Renard - [Compliments]

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
~ Jules Renard - [Laziness]

Fame is a constant effort
~ Jules Renard - [Fame]

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
~ Jules Renard - [Worry]

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
~ Jules Renard - [Solitude]

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
~ Jules Renard - [Love]

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
~ Jules Renard - [Heaven]

Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.
~ Jules Renard - [Communism and Socialism]

Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
~ Jules Renard - [Talent]

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
~ Jules Renard - [Rewards]

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
~ Jules Renard - [Anger]

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.
~ Jules Renard - [Fear]

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
~ Jules Renard - [Truth]

We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
~ Jules Renard - [Existence]

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
~ Jules Renard - [Words]

Words are the small change of thought.
~ Jules Renard - [Words]

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
~ Jules Renard - [Literature]