Joseph Roux Quotes

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux

Friendship, Peace, Wife

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Joseph Roux

Fool, Hand, Fine

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Joseph Roux

Experience, Wisdom, Lost

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
Joseph Roux

Happy, Nothing, Unhappy

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.
Joseph Roux

Good, Laugh, Show

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
Joseph Roux

Poetry, Expression, Exquisite

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
Joseph Roux

Succeed, Talent, Rare

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
Joseph Roux

Nothing, Emotions

Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
Joseph Roux

Experience, Wisdom, Rather

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
Joseph Roux

Truth, Poetry, Sunday

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
Joseph Roux

Good, True, Bad

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
Joseph Roux

Good, Yourself, Bad

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
Joseph Roux

Science, Poetry, Learn

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.
Joseph Roux

Solitude, Isolation

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
Joseph Roux

Another, Might, Ourselves

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
Joseph Roux

Happiness, Makes, Unbearable

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.
Joseph Roux

Affairs, Slowness

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Clergyman

Born: 1834

Died: 1905

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