“Some people create war and misery, some create wealth and money, and some create ideas and art. But we all create our… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Talent is 98% hard work - even Brel said so. The best signal for lack of talent is therefore quite simply low… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
The great renunciation of old age as it prepared for death, wraps itself up in its chrysalis, which may be observed at… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There are 3 elements essential in the matters of the State, Food, Military equipment, and Confidence of the people in the ruler.… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“Dying is beautiful- even the first time around, at the ripe old age of 20. It’s not easy most of the time,… — Norma Klein Copy Share Image
“Crotch biting menace:I have my mouth in close proximity to your genitals.Oh thou man who talks to my mistress over coffee.Do not… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“We’re always being made promises,’ she said. ‘You make them yourself and you listen to others giving theirs. Politicians are always going… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Among us, I am happy to say, old age is honorable, and regarded as a blessing from the Lord. It is our… — Lorenzo Snow Copy Share Image
“You are well aware that it is not numbers or strength that bring the victories in war. No, it is when one… — Xenophon Copy Share Image
“Malcolm Muggeridge, once a keen British social and cultural critic who in his old age became something of a religious fanatic. While… — S.T. Joshi Copy Share Image
“A generous intercourse of charity united the most distant provinces, and the smaller congregations were cheerfully assisted by the alms of their… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“No more tubs for me." I jumped off the bed and pulled on a pair of Pack sweats. "They make me lose… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“Here's what I think: when you're born, you're assigned a brain like you're assigned a desk, a nice desk, with plenty of… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
When Abba Anthony thought about the depths of the judgments of God, he asked, 'Lord, how is it that some die when… — Anthony the Great Copy Share Image
“Alma's existence at once felt bigger and much, much smaller — but a pleasant sort of smaller. The world had scaled itself… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The number of her acquaintances multiplied over the years as the number of her true friendships diminished. The Grant Longitudinal Study found… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“Not satisfied with what he's got? Is that it? That's husbands all over. Ungrateful pigs. You do everything for them, you bring… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
The statesman, lawyer, merchant, man of trade Pants for the refuge of some rural shade, Where all his long anxieties forgot Amid… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise system. These… — Russell Cornell Leffingwell Copy Share Image
“Today was my forty-fifth birthday. Impending old age and a problem marriage were staring me in the face. Not a good place… — Karen Cantwell Copy Share Image
“The certitude that everything has been written negates us or turns us into phantoms. I know of districts in which the young… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Thus this Earth resembles a great animall or rather an inanimate vegetable, draws in aethereal breath for its dayly refreshment and vitall… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“In these days of physical fitness, hair dye, and plastic surgery, you can live much of your life without feeling or even… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I view tea drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frame, an en-genderer of effeminancy and laziness, a debaucher… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
“There was once a tiger-striped cat. This cat died a million deaths, and lived a million lives, and in those lives, various… — Keiko Nobumoto Copy Share Image
It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with… — George Sand Copy Share Image
The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes a lot of your… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
“Waiting for a late friend. Waiting in line at the movies. Waiting for the phone to ring. Waiting for the mail. Waiting… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
I have observed that, generally speaking, network sports announcers did not tend to live to a ripe old age. On the other… — Lindsey Nelson Copy Share Image
“As we go ahead in our life, we become immobile with the old age and we lose all confidence. We find it… — Now immobility is no more your problem Copy Share Image
“When a man gets to middle age shouldn’t he look for a peaceful and stable existence, find a not-too-demanding sort of a… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
“When we try to understand something, more often than not, we kill it, and now I can feel the dangers of this… — Martin Page Copy Share Image
“Rory: Amy. I'm gonna need a little help here. Amy: Just stop it! Rory: Just think it through, this will work. This… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
“A little later Anastasia was sitting before her bedroom fire writing. It has a magic of its own—the bedroom fire. Not such… — John Meade Falkner Copy Share Image
“Life is not about fairness or unfairness. It is often unjust, claiming the good and the innocent as its victims. Life is… — Michael Mayne Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to an adequate old-age security plan is rising prices. A rise of 2% a year in prices would cut… — Sumner Slichter Copy Share Image
“10. What realities are captured in the story of Lou Sanders and his daughter, Shelley, regarding home care for an aging and… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
