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Robert Quillen Quotes

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.

Robert Quillen

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.

Tags: anger, knowledge, ignorance, argument

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

Robert Quillen

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

Tags: science, world, wish, chaos

About Author
Verni Robert Quillen (March 25, 1887 – December 9, 1948) was an American journalist and humorist who for more than a quarter century was "one of the leading purveyors of village nostalgia" from his home in Fountain Inn, South Carolina. In 2012, his office and library was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

You aren't really old until nothing is fun enough to make you forget the weather.

Robert Quillen

You aren't really old until nothing is fun enough to make you forget the weather.

Tags: age, humor, weather

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

Robert Quillen

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

Tags: thought, heaven, word

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

Robert Quillen

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

Tags: age, height, humor, storytelling

If you count all your assets you always show a profit.

Robert Quillen

If you count all your assets you always show a profit.

Tags: forgiveness

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Robert Quillen

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Tags: great, effort, difficult