Quotes

“Space is to place as eternity is to time.” Joseph Joubert

“Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.” Joseph Joubert

“The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.” Joseph Joubert

“There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.” Joseph Joubert

“Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.” Joseph Joubert

“Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.” Joseph Joubert

“You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.” Joseph Joubert

“You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.” Joseph Joubert

“Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.” Joseph Joubert

“The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.” Joseph Joubert

“Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.” Andy Rooney

“If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.” Andy Rooney

“Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.” Andy Rooney

“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.” Andy Rooney

“People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.” Andy Rooney

“The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.” Andy Rooney

“I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.” Andy Rooney

“Elephants and grandchildren never forget.” Andy Rooney

“If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.” Andy Rooney

“Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.” Andy Rooney

“Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.” Andy Rooney

“Death is a distant rumor to the young.” Andy Rooney

“The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.” Andy Rooney

“It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.” Andy Rooney

“Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.” Andy Rooney

“All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.” Andy Rooney

“The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.” Andy Rooney

“Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.” Andy Rooney

“Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.” Andy Rooney

“We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.” Andy Rooney