Quotes
Quotes about Age
Because I could not stop for death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And immortaility.
Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.
Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage . . . to listen to his own goodness.
If you're robbing a bank and you're pants fall down, I think it's okay to laugh and to let the hostages laugh too, because, come on, life is funny.
Children need encouragement. If a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way he develops a good, lucky feeling.
The people in the village were real poor, so none of the children had any toys. But this one little boy had gotten an old enema bag and filled it with rocks, and he would go around and whap the other children across the face with it. Man, I think my heart almost broke. Later the boy came up and offered to give me the toy. This was too much! I reached out my hand, but then he ran away. I chased him down and took the enema bag. He cried a little, but that's the way of these people.
Defeat should never be a source of courage, but rather a fresh stimulant.
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
There are two tragedies in life. One is not get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.
O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there, From me, whose love was of that dignity That it went hand in hand even with the vow I made to her in marriage, and to decline Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor To those of mine!
"I think if the devil doesn't exist, then man has created him. He has created him in his own image and likeness." "Just as man created God, then?" observed Alyosha.
Courage and perseverance have a magic talisman, before which difficulties and obstacles vanish into air.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. -William Ellery Channing.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age.
One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.
Discouragement is the opposite of courage.
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
