Quotes by Marcel Pagnol

“Those who can - do. Those who cant - criticize.”

“We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.”

“Remember that happiness is a way of travel -- not a destination”

“The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself.”

“A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.”

“Honor is like a match, you can only use it once.”

“Whenever I go to the dock and look at the horizon, I am on the other side. If I see a boat on the ocean, it pulls me like a cord . . . like a belt pulling my sides, and I dont know where I am, I cannot think of anything else. . .”

“...you may have created my past and screwed up my present but you have no control over my future.”

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

My advice is to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.”