The Quote Garden ™
I dig old books. ™
Est. 1998
About
The Quote Garden
digging up quotes since 1986
online since 1998
Welcome! My name is Terri, from Arizona. I have had my nose in books since 1976. The Quote Garden is my personal compilation of quotations that I’ve been collecting obsessively for 40 years. There are literary, poetic, historical, inspirational, funny, and thought-provoking quotes. I especially love old books, and so, many quotations are from the Romantic, Victorian, and Transcendental writings of the 1800s and Modernist of the early 1900s.
This website has seen many changes over the nearly three decades of its existence. It is now in a quiet patch while I tend to other plots of life, but it will bloom again. Even after all this time, I still haven’t finished placing my entire collection online. There are quote-scribbled scraps of paper and dog-eared books scattered all over my office which I will eventually get around to posting. My life’s work on this site can be summed up by the Dave Barry quotation: “There is a very fine line between ‘hobby’ and ‘mental illness.’” I think I may have long ago blurred, crossed, and obliterated that line. 
Who Is Terri Guillemets?
  Terri Guillemets is the pen name of quotation anthologist Terri A. Woodhull (b. 1973) from Phoenix, Arizona. Since childhood she has spent most of her free time reading books, journaling, and collecting quotations. In 1998 her hobbies gained a worldwide audience when she created The Quote Garden website, www.quotegarden.com. This large, unique compilation is one of the most long-standing online quotation collections and the first to feature a wide variety of special occasion topics. With a particular interest in antique books, her specialty is reviving abandoned literature from previous centuries. When she isn’t working or burying her nose in a book, she is very likely to be cloudgazing, out cherishing nature, or relaxing with family.
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“I cannot think of a more richly rewarding
and, at the same time, less lucrative occupation
than that of anthology making, and I am happy
to be a victim of this delightful disease.”
— Charles Lee, “Anthologitis,” 1940 —
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Now that a great wish of my life has been fulfilled, and I can boast of a Garden Room of my own, a retreat where I can work, and scatter leaves, and thoughts, and flowers, at will, I have made up my mind to keep a Kalendar of my own, and write therein what comes to me with flowers, and song of birds, and treasures I find in books which fill shelves on the green walls. Old books, with musty covers, and time-worn pages. I like the words and expressions of “olden-day” writers...
I have spent hours, days, weeks, in searching among books which are rare, and not easily read, so that to those who have not time, nor inclination to search for themselves, I may reveal hidden delights and buried joys... In my study I have learnt much; it is a labour of love, and ungrudgingly I give it to the world. 
—Helen Rose Anne Milman Crofton, My Kalendar of Country Delights, 1903
Dave Barry Quotation Source
There is a very fine line between “hobby” and “mental illness.”
—Dave Barry, “25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years,” Dave Barry Turns 50, 1998, davebarry.com
Acknowledgments
Google Books · FileLocator Pro · Notepad++ · Pagefind · Phoenix Public Library · Merriam-Webster · Alarmed by David Mandell · Michael P. Garofalo · GeoCities · Internet Archive · Robin Bates · ReNamer by Denis Kozlov · Bob · Dr Kurli · Amy · Trader Joe’s · Steve · Iris by Daniel Georgiev · Mama & Papa · Burton E. Stevenson · Emily Dickinson · Amanda Thebe · Jeanne LaMont · Open Source Shakespeare · Willis Goth Regier · Acopian BirdSavers · Cornell Lab of Ornithology · Good News Movement by Michelle Figueroa · Mozilla · Robert Brault · Dr Olsen · Dr Wright · Garson O’Toole · TimeAndDate.com · Dr. Idel Dreimer · Paul Simon · Judy Blume · TwainQuotes.com by Barbara Schmidt · @Raqhun · Scott Monahan · Jeff · Suzanne Jordan · Patty Gannon · Jerry Kopke · Dave Swerdfeger · Zeke Ashley · Kenneth S. Cohen · Jon Kabat-Zinn · Christian Howard · Encyclopædia Britannica · Microsoft Excel · Microsoft Copilot · Rob N · Trey Parker · Matt Stone · PolitiFact · Bill Maher · Miles Taylor · Joe Walsh · James Talarico · John Oliver · Ali Velshi · Birkenstock · Google · David · Billy · Annabelle
Trademark Notices
“The Quote Garden” name is a trademark of Terri Guillemets, first public use and first public use online 2000 May 18th. Renamed from “Quotations That Make a Statement,” first published 1998 March 18th.
The “I dig old books” tagline is a trademark of Terri Guillemets, first offline use 2007 May 3rd, first online use 2015 June 28th.
“The Quote Garden Daily Harvest” is a trademark of Terri Guillemets, first public use and first public use online 2002 October 18th.
www.quotegarden.com/about.html
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