Quotes 881 till 900 of 904.
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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
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Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
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[The Western Colonial system] shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbour in the end.
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A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
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Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?
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Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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Philanthropist. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
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Philanthropist: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
The Devil's Dictionary -
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.
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The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.
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