“The world is composed of lies. Starting from a kid’s cute lie, a teen’s white lie, a youth’s smart lie, it grows… — Ram Vignesh Copy Share Image
The step between prudence and paranoia is short and steep. Prudence wears a seat belt. Paranoia avoids cars. Prudence washes with soap.… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“Just in this one matter lies the main charm of life in Europe—comfort. In America, we hurry—which is well; but when the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It’s a big complex muscle, it beats and it beats, thirty million times a year. If it lasts twenty-seven hundred million beats,… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
“John Noa moved slowly toward the window. Old age had not been kind to him, and though he could still sit a… — Patricia Forde Copy Share Image
“Debts are subject to the laws of mathematics rather than physics. Unlike wealth, which is subject to the laws of thermodynamics, debts… — Soddy Frederick Copy Share Image
At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“We do not rush toward death, we flee the catastrophe of birth, survivors struggling to forget it. Fear of death is merely… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“In all the days of the Third Age, after the fall of Gil-galad, Master Elrond abode in Imladris, and he gathered there… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“While he was waiting, leaning on the counter at a coffee place, he remembered the dream he'd had the night before about… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Feelings that would not have disgraced a leader who, now that the snow has begun to fall and the mountain-top is covered… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“He looks at Mama out of the corner of his eye, again surprised by how little she is. As if all of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“No one could work harder to be happy," Tocqueville observes of Americans, marveling at the ceaseless, restless energy they expand in search… — Darrin M. McMahon Copy Share Image
“A time may come soon," said he, "when none will return. Then there will be need of valour without renown, for none… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Tzu Li went to see Tzu Lai who was dying. Leaning against the door, he said, 'Great is the Creator! What will… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“You are born in a human form, and you find joy in it. Yet there are ten thousand other forms endlessly transforming… — Arnold Mindell Copy Share Image
“Mrs Anderson was dead. Nothing flashy, just old age - she went to bed one night and never woke up. The news… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
“I am forty years old now, and you know forty years is a whole lifetime; you know it is extreme old age.… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“If I ever have kids, this is what I'm going to do with them: I am going to give birth to them… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“What is the meaning of life?” Joseph was often asked, and he would respond, “There is no meaning. We bring meaning to… — Diane K. Olson Copy Share Image
“Iturbide exclaimed: "Don't frighten me, General!" "Don't be frightened," said the General in a calm voice. "Go to Mexico, even if they… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Old age likes to dwell in the recollections of the past, and, mistaking, the speedy march of years, often is inclined to… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We think in youth that our bodies are identical to ourselves and have the same interests, but discover later in life that… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“We have to just keep living. We'll keep going. Uncle Johnny? You and me will keep going - through the long procession… — Robert Icke Copy Share Image
The welfare state destroys the market mechanisms - lessens free choice and willing exchange. Simultaneously creating unnatural specializations, it must, granted statism's… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Every new born being indeed comes fresh and blithe into the new existence, and enjoys it as a free gift: but there… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Fanfare for the Makers A cloud of witnesses. To whom? To what? To the small fire that never leaves the sky. To… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Forget about your lists and do what you can because that’s all you can do. Phone up the people you miss and… — pleasefindthis Copy Share Image
“She's my life, do you understand? Have you ever loved a woman? Have you ever held her at night so tight because… — C.D. Reiss Copy Share Image
“their base ingratitude to my poor old grandmother. She had served my old master faithfully from youth to old age. She had… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“It is notorious that the insatiable factory wears out its workers with great rapidity. As it scraps machinery so it scraps human… — Chris Farrell Copy Share Image
We Are Never Too Old To Set A New Goal Or To Dream Another Dream. No Matter How Old We Are, There's… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“Because our world is not the same as Othello’s world. You can’t make flivvers without steel-and you can’t make tragedies without social… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The Newton Twins were the first to try to force the machine to be wrong. Both their tickets said Old Age, so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But you've not explained why the quality of good is not inherent, but not that of evil. I say man has these… — Tendai Huchu Copy Share Image
