Joseph Roux Quotes


"When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing."
- Joseph Roux
(Related: Nothing)

"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
(Related: Peace, Father, Wife, Friend, Language, Losing, Man, Name, Unhappiness)

"Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know."
- Joseph Roux
(Related: Poetry, Science)

"The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable."
- Joseph Roux
(Related: Happiness)

"The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another."
- Joseph Roux
(Related: Folly)

"Solitude vivifies; isolation kills."
- Joseph Roux
(Related: Isolation, Solitude)

"There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts."
- Joseph Roux
(Related: People)

"Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word."
- Joseph Roux
(Related: Nothing, Will, Word)

"Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained."
- Joseph Roux
(Related: Experience, Wisdom)

"It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent."
- Joseph Roux
(Related: Talent, Man, Succeed)

"Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions."
- Joseph Roux
(Related: Emotions, Nothing)

"Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired."
- Joseph Roux
(Related: Experience, Wisdom)

"Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions."
- Joseph Roux
(Related: Poetry, Expression)

"Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes."
- Joseph Roux
(Related: Poetry, Truth, Clothes)

"Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad."
- Joseph Roux
(Related: Feeling, Man, Passion, Reason, Rest)

"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
(Related: Fool, Man, Quotation, Wit)