Quotes 621 till 640 of 825.
-
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
-
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it - the speed of his acceptance.
-
The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, ''Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.'' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wish
-
The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.
-
The tormenting dilemma of the Middle East is this: either we have one people too many, or one state too few.
-
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
-
The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?
-
The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.
-
The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.
-
The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.
-
The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions - in a Freudian way - to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it.
-
The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.
-
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
-
The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.
-
The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.
-
The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
-
Theatre is the aspirin of the middle classes.
More in Sorrow -
Then I though of reading - the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.
-
Then there are actors my age like Ethan Hawke, he's in 'Moby Dick,' I love his work. I've been lucky. Alfred Molina, he has real class.
All middle-age famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 32)
