Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand. Robert Brault
This is one of those quotes that you wonder if it's saying what it says, but I thought it was worth a mention.
Secondly, there's a verse in chapter 13 of the Book of Proverbs: Hope deferred makes the heart sick and this is a considerable truth. But as I realised today, hope isn't dead in this verse, so perhaps it should read: hope deferred makes the heart sick, but that isn't the end of hope.
Incidentally, I don't know who Robert Brault is, but when you look him up on Google, all you find are references to his quotes. It's as if he never wrote anything but quotes. In fact, one result comes up with the complete Robert Brault quotes. Isn't that an oxymoron?
PS 3 days later - when I wrote the post I didn't know who Robert Brault was. As you can see, he's kindly pointed me in the right direction, and you can find out more about him on his quotes Reader.
Update 9.5.26: Robert is still providing quotes, several a day on his blog. I'm guessing that some (all?) are repeats, but it doesn't matter. A good quote is worth repeating...
Such as:
Do you suppose that evil ever worries that its efforts are too little, too late?
or
You are not a true hypocrite if you merely preach one thing and do another; you must also, simultaneously, deplore hypocrisy.
I could go on all day...
