WIST Quotations

Roux, Joseph -- Meditations of a Parish Priest: Thoughts, ch. 4, #38 (1886)

Dave — Mon, 09 May 2016 15:20:19 +0000

How many sacrifice honor, a necessity, to glory, a luxury?

Joseph Roux (1834–1886) French Catholic priest
Meditations of a Parish Priest: Thoughts, ch. 4, #38 (1886)

Roux, Joseph -- Meditations of a Parish Priest: Thoughts, ch. 4, #95 (1886)

Dave — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 13:04:21 +0000

Reason! reason! … As much as you like; but beware of thinking that it answers to everything, suffices for everything, satisfies everything. This mother loses her child: will reason comfort her? Does cool reason counsel the inspired poet, the heroic warrior, the lover? Reason guides but a small part of man, and that the least interesting. The rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

Joseph Roux (1834–1886) French Catholic priest
Meditations of a Parish Priest: Thoughts, ch. 4, #95 (1886)

Roux, Joseph -- Meditations of a Parish Priest: Thoughts, ch. 5, #24 (1886)

Dave — Mon, 02 May 2016 17:38:07 +0000

Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness.

Joseph Roux (1834–1886) French Catholic priest
Meditations of a Parish Priest: Thoughts, ch. 5, #24 (1886)

Roux, Joseph -- Meditations of a Parish Priest: Thoughts, Part 1, #74 (1886)

Dave — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 16:08:00 +0000

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

Joseph Roux (1834–1886) French Catholic priest
Meditations of a Parish Priest: Thoughts, Part 1, #74 (1886)

Roux, Joseph -- Meditations of a Parish Priest: Thoughts, Part 4, #28 [tr. Hapgood (1886)]

Dave — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:14:31 +0000

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

Joseph Roux (1834–1886) French Catholic priest
Meditations of a Parish Priest: Thoughts, Part 4, #28 [tr. Hapgood (1886)]

Roux, Joseph -- Meditations of a Parish Priest: Thoughts, Part 4, #85 (1886)

Dave — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 14:03:10 +0000

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

Joseph Roux (1834–1886) French Catholic priest
Meditations of a Parish Priest: Thoughts, Part 4, #85 (1886)

Roux, Joseph -- Meditations of a Parish Priest: Thoughts, Part 4, #88 (1886)

Dave — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 12:56:42 +0000

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

Joseph Roux (1834–1886) French Catholic priest
Meditations of a Parish Priest: Thoughts, Part 4, #88 (1886)

Roux, Joseph -- Meditations of a Parish Priest: Thoughts, Part 5 “Joy, Suffering, Fortune,” #22 (1886) [tr. Hapgood]

Dave — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 15:08:28 +0000

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.

Joseph Roux (1834–1886) French Catholic priest
Meditations of a Parish Priest: Thoughts, Part 5 “Joy, Suffering, Fortune,” #22 (1886) [tr. Hapgood]

Roux, Joseph -- Meditations of a Parish Priest: Thoughts, Part 5, #37 (1886)

Dave — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 13:11:36 +0000

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

Joseph Roux (1834–1886) French Catholic priest
Meditations of a Parish Priest: Thoughts, Part 5, #37 (1886)

Roux, Joseph -- Meditations of a Parish Priest: Thoughts, Part 9, #54 (1886)

Dave — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 15:51:13 +0000

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 (1834–1886) French Catholic priest
Meditations of a Parish Priest: Thoughts, Part 9, #54 (1886)

Roux, Joseph -- Meditations of a Parish Priest, 5.56 [tr. Hapgood (1886)]

Dave — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 05:24:36 +0000

Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.

Joseph Roux (1834–1886) French Catholic priest
Meditations of a Parish Priest, 5.56 [tr. Hapgood (1886)]

Roux, Joseph -- Meditations of a Parish Priest, 5.60 [tr. Hapgood (1886)]

Dave — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:00:39 +0000

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

Joseph Roux (1834–1886) French Catholic priest
Meditations of a Parish Priest, 5.60 [tr. Hapgood (1886)]