French dramatist Jules Renard (1864-1910) is a favorite of mine for his wit and wisdom. I am grateful to an old boyfriend for introducting me to Renard (no, not in person). The boyfriend is long gone, but Renard is in my mind and heart to stay. I hope you enjoy him like I have ... Renard, not the old boyfriend. Jeez, every gal in Tennessee and half of Georgia enjoyed him from what I hear! When he joined the Navy ... well, you know I figured it was senseless to try and keep track further -- j/k (kinda) "s" :) LOL.

L'humour de Jules Renard

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

"A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea."

"Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page: it writes three hundred."

"The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead."

"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."

"We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest."

"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money."

"We spend our lives talking about this mystery - our life."

"The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat."

"A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea" ... please remember this because worry and jealousy can ruin something that might have been very good ..... Rennie

"A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings."

"Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend."

"Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others."

"I am not sincere, even when I say I am not."

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

"Look for the ridiculous in everything, and you will find it."

"The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse" ..... hummmm, good dating advice?