Lib Quotes
  • Authors
  • Topics
  • Lists
  • Pictures
  • Resources
  • More about Joseph Jacobs

Joseph Jacobs Quotes

1 Sourced Quote

    • Source
    • Report...
Such is the past career, present condition, and certain future of the Middle American. There are as many above him as below him, and especially as many below him as above him.

Joseph Jacobs

Quote of the day

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a world without physicists. And physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
George Wald

Joseph Jacobs

Joseph Jacobs

Born: August 29, 1854
Died: January 30, 1916 (aged 61)
Bio: Joseph Jacobs was an Australian folklorist, literary critic, social scientist, historian and writer of English literature who became a notable collector and publisher of English folklore.
Known for:
  1. English Fairy Tales (1890)
  2. More Celtic fairy tales (1894)
  3. More English Fairy Tales (1894)
  4. Celtic Fairy Tales (1893)
  5. Indian Fairy Tales (1892)

WikipediaJoseph Jacobs on Wikipedia
Gutenberg ProjectJoseph Jacobs works on Gutenberg Project
WikisourceJoseph Jacobs works on Wikisource

Suggest an edit or a new quoteSuggest an edit or a new quote

British Historian Quotes
Historian Quotes
19th-century Historian Quotes

Related Authors

David Simon
David Simon
American Journalist

Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang
British Novelist

Aesop
Aesop
Greek Author

H. W. Janson
H. W. Janson
American Historian

Featured Authors

Alfred HitchcockKahlil GibranTerenceDenis DiderotJohann Sebastian BachMarco PoloCharles DarwinTenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai LamaL. Frank BaumJulius CaesarMarie CurieSimone de Beauvoir

Lists

Predictions that didn't happen

Predictions that didn't happen

If it's on the Internet it must be true

If it's on the Internet it must be true

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Picture Quotes

If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

Confucius

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Philip James Bailey

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Popular Topics

  • life
  • love
  • nature
  • time
  • god
  • power
  • human
  • mind
  • work
  • art
  • heart
  • thought
  • men
  • day
Lib Quotes

100% Sourced Quotes.

Our motto is: Don't quote it if you can't source it.

Contact us

Social Media

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • X (Twitter)
  • Pinterest

Recent

Predictions that didn't happen

If it's on the Internet it must be true

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Subscribe to our Newsletter:
Quote of the Day
JS and WordPress
Subscribe
to RSS Feeds
© 2017-2025 LibQuotes
Terms of Use / Privacy Policy / About Us

Lib Quotes