Living Past Quotes by Robert Quillen

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it…

— Robert Quillen

Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you.

— Robert Quillen

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance

— Robert Quillen

Character is made by what you stand for;reputation by what you fall for.

— Robert Quillen

Another difference between death and taxes is that you don't have to work like fury to pay for the dying you did last year.

— Robert Quillen

The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency.

— Robert Quillen

The one word above all others that makes marriage successful is 'ours.'

— Robert Quillen

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

— Robert Quillen

It's a great kindness to trust people with a secret. They feel so important while telling it.

— Robert Quillen

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. G.B. Stern "If you count all your assets, you always show a profit."

— Robert Quillen

The secret of a happy marriage is simple: Just keep on being as polite to one another as you are to your friends.

— Robert Quillen

Why are congressmen called public servants? You never see servants that anxious to keep their jobs.

— Robert Quillen

You aren't really old until nothing is fun enough to make you forget the weather.

— Robert Quillen

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

— Robert Quillen

“Americanism: Using money you haven't earned to buy things you don't need to impress people you don't like.”

— Robert Quillen