I shall have spent my life in railway stations
Nearly departing
For catastrophes,
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JULES LAFORGUE If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
JULES RENARD It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
JULES RENARD Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads...
JULES RENARD Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
JULES RENARD Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.
JULES VERNE The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving ...
JULES RENARD A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities.
JULES ORMONT The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
JULES RENARD It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.
JULES RENARD Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.
JULES RENARD Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
JULES RENARD The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving ...
JULES RENARD Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
JULES RENARD Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
JULES RENARD Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you are indispensable, and you will...
JULES ORMONT When one has taken root, one puts out branches.
JULES VERNE We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
JULES RENARD There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.
JULES RENARD At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, preposs...
JULES FEIFFER Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open t...
JULES RENARD He who knows how to be poor knows everything.
JULES MICHELET I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was s...
JULES FEIFFER Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
JULES RENARD There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
JULES RENARD Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
JULES ELLINGER Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
JULES RENARD Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.
JULES RENARD A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
JULES RENARD Not an inch of our territory not a stone of our fortress.
JULES FAVRE School is an institution for drilling children in cultural orientation. ...American classrooms, like...
JULES HENRY Fame is a constant effort
JULES RENARD There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.
JULES ELLINGER On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
JULES RENARD The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead...
JULES RENARD Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions
JULES MICHELET Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page: it writes three hundred.
JULES RENARD Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
JULES RENARD A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
JULES RENARD If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
JULES RENARD There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
JULES RENARD Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
JULES FEIFFER Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
JULES RENARD I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
JULES RENARD Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
JULES RENARD I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
JULES RENARD Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disor...
JULES VERNE What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinar...
JULES VERNE It took a bit of talking through administrative people, but only once did an attorney try and get in...
JULES SHEAR Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
JULES FEIFFER Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discov...
JULES VERNE I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming t...
JULES VERNE I was never really a model. That somehow is in my bio. The whole thing is I was tall since I was a c...
JULES ASNER In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless.
JULES VERNE Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
JULES RENARD The bourgeois are other people.
JULES RENARD It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the de...
JULES RENARD The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence.
JULES VERNE The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
JULES RENARD The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healt...
JULES VERNE The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
JULES RENARD Far better to be the simplest pedestrian, with knapsack on back, stick in hand, and gun on shoulder,...
JULES VERNE Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
JULES VERNE In the United States, there is no project so audacious for which people cannot be found to guarantee...
JULES VERNE The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians...
JULES VERNE Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is no...
JULES VERNE Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in...
JULES VERNE The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her sever...
JULES VERNE Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
JULES RENARD Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamble...
JULES VERNE Still, for long the love of science triumphed over all other feelings. He became an artist deeply im...
JULES VERNE The sea is only the embodiment of a
supernatural and wonderful existence.
It is nothing bu...
JULES VERNE On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth an...
JULES VERNE Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to it...
JULES VERNE An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
JULES RENARD Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw tw...
JULES VERNE The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cau...
JULES VERNE We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
JULES VERNE Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
JULES VERNE So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is th...
JULES VERNE We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, a...
JULES VERNE Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you are indispensable, and you will...
JULES ORMONT There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.
JULES ELLINGER Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts.
JULES ELLINGER Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
JULES COMBARIEU I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men.
JULES ASNER I hardly wear any makeup.
JULES ASNER I can't stand accessories.
JULES ASNER I'm a bad dater - I'm just not good at it. It's so weird dating in this town. It's like high school....
JULES ASNER I have an engagement ring, which is my favorite accessory.
JULES ASNER It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good rea...
JULES VERNE Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the ...
JULES VERNE Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which prod...
JULES VERNE How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the...
JULES VERNE When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their ch...
JULES VERNE In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.
JULES VERNE I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations ...
JULES MASSENET With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.
JULES VERNE The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear...
JULES VERNE A cold in the head cause less suffering than an idea.
JULES RENARD I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.
JULES RENARD Look for the ridiculous in everything and you find it.
JULES RENARD The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving ...
JULES RENARD Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
JULES RENARD I am not sincere, not even when I say I am not.
JULES RENARD Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you are indispensable, and you wil...
JULES ORMONT Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
JULES RENARD There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. -...
JULES RENARD Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties
JULES RENARD Using the Oval office to cheat on your wife makes you a bad husband and an irresponsible leader. Usi...
JULES CARLYSLE Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
JULES COMBARIEU Be warned against all 'good' advice because 'good' advice is necessarily 'safe' advice, and though i...
JULES FEIFFER Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
JULES VERNE Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
JULES RENARD Words are the small change of thought.
JULES RENARD The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they'v...
JULES FEIFFER I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
JULES RENARD Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color...
JULES FEIFFER I grew up to have my father's looks - my fathers speech patterns - my father's posture - my father's...
JULES FEIFFER Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.
JULES FEIFFER The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen, and all of a sudden they'...
JULES FEIFFER Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
JULES FEIFFER Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.
JULES RENARD Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
JULES RENARD Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you...
JULES RENARD Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others
JULES RENARD This forcible abduction, so roughly carried out, was accomplished with the rapidity of lightning. I ...
JULES VERNE Could you imagine the OUTRAGE that would ensue if an artist thanked Allah or Zeus for their Grammy A...
JULES CARLYSLE A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.
JULES VERNE In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this...
JULES VERNE When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey.
JULES VERNE The Chinaman has only a passive courage, but this courage he possesses in the highest degree. His in...
JULES VERNE 'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by co...
JULES VERNE It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody
JULES RENARD However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies b...
JULES VERNE Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like w...
JULES VERNE It turned out that the VIN [vehicle identification number] on the contract was off by one digit.
JULES PAPP The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousa...
JULES VERNE I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty.
JULES SHEAR Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because t...
JULES VERNE The regions of the North Pole situated within the eighty-fourth degree of north latitude have not ye...
JULES VERNE We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulg...
JULES VERNE It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the bra...
JULES VERNE When the US sneezes, Canada says, “gesundheit.”
JULES CARLYSLE Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
JULES RENARD Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
JULES VERNE You could put this record on and not get jarred half-way through. I wanted it to be all cut from one...
JULES SHEAR A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth.
JULES VERNE The world is an enormous injustice.
JULES ROMAINS It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be...
JULES RENARD We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.
JULES RENARD An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
JULES RENARD Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it
JULES RENARD He rose at thirteen minutes to one, and directed his steps towards the large hall, a sumptuous apart...
JULES VERNE We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it
JULES RENARD If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right
JULES RENARD Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins
JULES RENARD The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
JULES RENARD To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois
JULES RENARD One's native land! There should one live! There die!
JULES VERNE A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears.
JULES FEIFFER At 16 I was stupid, confused, . . . and indecisive. At 21 I was wise, self-confident, . . . and asse...
JULES FEIFFER I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my father's op...
JULES FEIFFER I've backed off cliffs all of my career. The best things I've done I've backed into. I never underst...
JULES FEIFFER I love doing it and until I stop loving it, this is what I do. I loved writing for the theater for 2...
JULES FEIFFER Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into...
JULES VERNE Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
JULES VERNE A minimum put to good use is enough for anything.
JULES VERNE Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.
JULES RENARD I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self.
JULES RENARD Ah! Pauvre ami, comme il m'aimait!
JULES MASSENET When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them ones...
JULES RENARD A little drowsing cat is an image of a perfect beatitude
JULES CHAMPFLEURY Was I to believe him in earnest in his intention to penetrate to the centre of this massive globe? H...
JULES VERNE As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more
JULES RENARD We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of ...
JULES RENARD I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries
JULES RENARD We spend our lives talking about this mystery - our life.
JULES RENARD Words are the small change of thought
JULES RENARD Haughty, silent faces should not deceive us: these are the timid ones
JULES RENARD The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I ...
JULES RENARD The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead
JULES RENARD On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it
JULES RENARD The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving ...
JULES RENARD Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement....
JULES RENARD There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last
JULES RENARD Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open t...
JULES RENARD Liberty is worth paying for . . .
JULES VERNE Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve
JULES VERNE Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence
JULES FEIFFER Good swiping is an art in itself
JULES FEIFFER I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of ...
JULES VERNE Music is no longer tasted it is swallowed.
JULES VERNE Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because t...
JULES VERNE I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new
JULES VERNE It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly ...
JULES VERNE Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it.
JULES SHEAR You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the...
JULES VERNE Your story is not a picture of life; it lacks the elements of truth. And why? Simply because you run...
JULES VERNE The resolutions passed at the last meeting produced a great effect out of doors. Timid people took f...
JULES VERNE