401 Quotes by Joseph Joubert

You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.

Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.

There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.

There's so many different kinds of rights to consider these days: computer, e-book, all sorts of things. Forget foreign rights and entertainment rights. There are so many things to consider and an agent is going to know how to wade through all that much better than you are.

Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.

Virtue is the health of the soul.

I am fairly certain that my independent, high-spirited grandmother must have had a childhood similar to Betsy Ray'sAs I read about the School Entertainment and ice cream socials, about ladies leaving calling cards and the milkman with his horse-drawn wagon, I felt that I was having an unexpected and welcome peek into Granny's childhood-a gift to me from Maud Hart Lovelace

It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.

No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.