About The Quote Garden
Welcome! My name is Terri, from Arizona. I’ve had my nose in books since 1976. The Quote Garden is my personal compilation of quotations that I’ve been collecting obsessively for
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 haven’t finished placing my entire collection online. There are quote-scribbled scraps of paper and dog-eared books scattered all over which eventually I will get around to posting. My life’s work on this site can be summed up by the Dave Barry quote: “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, 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.
“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
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
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There is a very fine line between “hobby” and “mental illness.”
“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
The “I dig old books” tagline is a trademark of Terri Guillemets, first offline use 2007 May 3rd, first online use 2015
“The Quote Garden Daily Harvest” is a trademark of Terri Guillemets, first public use and first public use online 2002