“Just as the migratory and nest-building instincts of birds were never learnt or acquired individually, man brings with him at birth the… — Murray Stein Copy Share Image
“I think God has planned the strength and beauty of youth to be physical. But the strength and beauty of old age… — J. Robertson McQuilkin Copy Share Image
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“Then, for no reason I could tell you, I tossed the spool again, even though Elaine had asked me not to. Maybe… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I, an old man, have written this fire report. Among other things, it was important to me, as an exercise for old… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
“And could a man sink to such triviality, such meanness, such nastiness? Could he change so much? And is it true to… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“First, they have small drops of moisture fall to dampen the dust of desire, and by opening the gateway of nirvana, fanning… — Gene Reeves Copy Share Image
“Hereditary leadership was unknown. Men became chiefs by their prowess in war; and because he must ever be generous, a chief was… — Frank Bird Linderman Copy Share Image
“The noise of the town some floors below was greatly muted. In a state of complete mental detachment, he went over the… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“Zenists call them 'pairs of opposites.' It holds good also in human affairs: advantage is always accompanied by disadvantage; loss by gain;… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
Today, when death and old age are increasingly concealed behind euphemisms and comforting baby talk, and life is threatened with being smothered… — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
