401 Quotes by Joseph Joubert

It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.

It was the kind of terrified look that reminds you that no matter how rational or grown up a person might seem, some part of him is absolutely sure - knows - that an evil other-world exists just outside of our regular, everyday world. And that although we don't expect that world to collide with our calm, predictable one...well, really, at any moment that is exactly what might happen.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.

Some days,' I say, 'I feel like I don't belong anywhere in that world. That world out there. 'I point to Grant. 'People walk down our street and people drive down it and people ride their bicycles down it and all of them, even the ones I know, could be from another planet. And I'm a visiting alien.' And aliens don't belong anywhere,' Adam finishes for me, 'except in their own little corners of the universe.' Right,' I say. ~pgs 57-58 Hattie and Adam on alienation

The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.

Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.

Because, you see, you only need one friend for a party. One is enough. Two is enough. Anything is enough.' ~pg 107; Adam on friendship

When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.