Quotes
Quotes about Age
The great tragedy of scienceâthe slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far... I was then too powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me.
What you get out depends on what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.
A language is never in a state of fixation, but is always changing; we are not looking at a lantern-slide but at a moving picture.
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
It is often forgotten that (dictionaries) are artificial repositories, put together well after the languages they define. The roots of language are irrational and of a magical nature.
Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose.
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only ONE day, of modern warfare.
It (marriage) may be compared to a cage, the birds without try desperately to get in, and those within try desperately to get out.
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and says you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a television set.
For as our modern wits behold, Mounted a pick-back on the old, Much farther off, much further he, Rais'd on his aged Beast, could see.
Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.
Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
Condemned whole years in absence to deplore, And image charms he must behold no more.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; every little absence is an age.
No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
Every egg represents 32 hours of jail for a chicken kept in a 3 ft by 1 ft cage, debeaked.
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.
Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
