"Those of us who are blamed when old……" — C.S. Lewis

"Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us."

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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis has 1,827 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I…
One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to…
You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for…
The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of…
We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who,…
Total war is the most humane in the long run.
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich,…
If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own…
Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us…
Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and…

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Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States. — John Bolton
Goalies almost never get credit for winning a game, but they always get blamed for losing a game. — Steve Carell
There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the… — Mother Teresa
These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam. — Neil Sheehan
Be happy when you are blamed and accused wrongly, for then you have the chance to see all the bitter,… — Teresa of Avila
He took his misfortune like a man - he blamed it on his wife. — Bob Phillips
Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing… — Naomi Wolf
We struggled against apartheid because we were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about.… — Desmond Tutu
Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the… — Isaac Asimov
But would we know, whether the pretended prophet had really attained a just sentiment of morals? Let us attend to… — David Hume
The President's political travel is going to get blamed (and probably rightly) for a share of this downturn. — Robert Teeter
The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has… — Eugene Wigner

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