Quotes 461 till 480 of 833.
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Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.
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Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.
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Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.
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Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.
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Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
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Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.
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Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.
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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
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