Jules Romains

“A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.”

“Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.”

“The people who live in a small town and who aren't ashamed of it are the people you can't shame.”

“The great truth is there isn't one.”

“War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.”

“A pretty woman is a welcome accident.”

“I am not so much a man as a moment of mankind.”

“The big towns are hoarding all the pretty girls.”

“The world is not a piece of property to be inherited by a few.”

“A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.”

“The best doctor is the one you run for and can't find.”

“We think so because all other people think so; or because--or because--after all, we do think so; or because we were told so, and think we must think so.”

“Old men are fond of giving good advice, to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.”