Age Quote by Alexander Pope

If age teaches you anything, then one of its lessons is certainly not to hurry if you're already late…

— Sergei Lukyanenko

Age teaches us how to be more aware of other people's feelings.

— Laura Huxley

There various news I heard of love and strife,Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,Of loss and gain, of famine and of…

— Alexander Pope

There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape…

— Dalai Lama

No pains must be spared to wipe out all feeling of diffidence, embarrassment, or shame on the part of those receiving relief; [we] must…

— Heber J. Grant

Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.

— Walter Savage Landor

Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible…

— Robert Frost

Diffidence and awkwardness are antidotes to love.

— William Hazlitt

Hitler frequently demonstrated diffidence and unease in dealings with individuals which contrasted diametrically with his self-confident mastery in exploiting the emotions of his listeners…

— Ian Kershaw

The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must…

— Daphne du Maurier

I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was first married,…

— Ayelet Waldman

I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness…

— W. Somerset Maugham