Career Quote by Don DeLillo

“How can a true man find contentment in growing old while leading a leisurely and mediocre life?”

— Heo Gyun

“They learned to live contently with small things, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy not respectable,…

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

“For in the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way…

— George Eliot

“Seeing the ease and security in which these people were living, I felt that this close resemblance of the sexes was after all what…

— H.G.Wells

“For they were, in the first place, even down to the very poorest, a well-fed people, with fewer luxuries than we, but more abundant…

— Charles Kingsley

“Curious thing that the younger men of today were glib enough when they talked of ideals and how everyone must progress in a changing…

— Daphne du Maurier

“They were born, they grew up in the gutters, they went to work at twelve, they passed through a brief blossoming period of beauty…

— George Orwell

“Under the eighteenth century fashion people did not so much all pretend to be young, as all agree to be old.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“An old man is never at home save in his own garments: his own old thinking and beliefs; old hands and feet, elbow, knee,…

— William Faulkner

“You have still to learn,’ said Jasper, ‘that modesty helps a man in no department of modern life. People take you at your own…

— George Gissing

“In this century, as in any other, men wore the comfortable, practical stuff, and the women wandered round expiring underneath over-decorated tea-cosies and with…

— Jodi Taylor

“All the older men are linked up with their previous life. They have wives, children, occupations, and interests, they have a background which is…

— Erich Maria Remarque