Quotes by
Joseph Roux |
1834-1905 , French clergyman & poet
He served as a vicar for many years in the area of New Aquitaine in France.He punlished poems and the Journal Limousine (a journal still alive thanks to his recreation in the early 1960s) . He worked on a Grammaire Limousine for the Occitan language.
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Quotations
| • | We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough. 8 |
| • | There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts. 8 |
| • | Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise. 5 |
| • | A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. 4 |
| • | I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy. 4 |
| • | Solitude vivifies; isolation kills. 4 |
| • | Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know. 3 |
| • | The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another. 3 |
| • | Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word. 3 |
| • | Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving. 3 |
| • | Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad. 3 |
| • | Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. 3 |
| • | Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained. 2 |
| • | It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent. 2 |
| • | There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them. 2 |
| • | Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions. 2 |
| • | The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. 2 |