"Famous-Quotes" P13
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Aristotle
At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five
I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At
forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive.
Who would have supposed that maturity is
only a short break in adolescence.
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm.
Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age. I missed it coming and going.
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
Judith Viorst
Years ago we discovered the exact point the dead center
of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take
up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travelers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.
Thomas Wolfe
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists,
is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with
an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
Bob Wells
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
B. F. Skinner
The beautiful thing about learning is that no
one can take it away from you.
B. B. King
We read to know we are not alone.
C. S Lewis
It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than
to read a lot and ponder a little.
Denis Parsons Burkitt
They that will not be
counseled cannot be helped. If you
do not hear reason, she will rap you on the
knuckles.
Benjamin Franklin
Only intuition can
save you from the most dangerous individual of all, the articulate incompetent.
Robert Bernstein
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Aristotle
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me
their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Henri Frederic Amiel
To
be apt in
quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it
ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the
same reason.
Robertson Davies
Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.
Sonny Bono
To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
It is just the little touches after the average man would
quit that make the master's fame.
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we
have that people are still thinking.
Jerry Seinfield
No skill is more crucial to the future of a child, or to a
democratic and prosperous society, than literacy
Los Angeles Times
Earnestness and sincereness
are synonymous.
Corita Kent
Life is a succession of moments.
To live each one is to succeed.
Corita Kent
I believe that uncertainty is rally my spirit's way of whispering,
I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here.
Oprah Winfrey
Truly successful decision making relies on a balance
between deliberate and instinctive thinking.
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