I have a remarkable memory I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world was constantly renewing itself for me.

— Jules Renard

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.

— Jules Renard

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

— Jules Renard

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

— Jules Renard

It's not how old you are, it's how you are old.

— Jules Renard

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

— Jules Renard

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none

— Jules Renard

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you find it.

— Jules Renard

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.

— Jules Renard