Jules Romains Quotes

#1. I speak to God every day.

Andrea Bocelli

#2. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey/Where wealth accumulates and men decay

Oliver Goldsmith

#3. True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.

Hosea Ballou

#4. History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.

Jules Romains

#5. There are certainly numberless women of fashion who consider it perfectly natural to go miles down Fifth Avenue, or Madison Avenue, yet for whom a voyage of half a dozen blocks to east or west would be an adventure, almost a dangerous impairment of good breeding.

Jules Romains

#6. It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his working years.

J.D. Salinger

#7. Healthy people are invalids who don't know it.

Jules Romains

#8. The world is an enormous injustice.

Jules Romains

#9. A captured pirate was brought before Alexander the Great. "How dare you molest the sea?" asked Alexander. "How dare you molest the whole world?" the pirate replied, and continued: "Because I do it with a little ship only, I am called a thief; you, doing it with a great navy, are called an emperor.

Noam Chomsky

#10. People who feel well are sick people neglecting themselves.

Jules Romains

#11. Without him nothing was done, and through him everything was done, and the king trusted him more than any other.

Jean Froissart