Quotes by Roux, Joseph

"Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions."

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

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

Roux, Joseph on patience   

"Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!"

Roux, Joseph on philosophers and philosophy   

"Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions."

Roux, Joseph on poetry and poets   

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

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

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

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

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

Roux, Joseph on cries and crying
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