Old age is no place for sissies.
- Bette Davis - In Old Age
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
- Victor Hugo - In Old Age
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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
- Victor Hugo - In Old Age
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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
- Henry David Thoreau - In Old Age
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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
- Pope Paul VI - In Old Age
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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 - In Old Age
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
- Italo Calvino - In Art
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If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
- Vincent Van Gogh - In Art
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Anything simple always interests me.
- David Hockney - In Art
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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
- David Hockney - In Art
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Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.
- Melvin Maddocks - In Art
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
- Octavio Paz - In Art
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer - In Art
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I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions. Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer - In Art
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For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? to the designer of the camera? To the finger on the button? tso the law of averages?
- Gore Vidal - In Art
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Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
- Leonardo da Vinci - In Art
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I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.
- David Ogilvy - In Business
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I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
- Henry David Thoreau - In Business
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We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
- Alexis de Tocqueville - In Business
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To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.
- Alvin Toffler - In Business
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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
- Washington Irving - In On Change
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Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau - In On Change
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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
- David Sarnoff - In Mortality
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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
- Leonardo da Vinci - In Mortality
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau - In Dreams
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Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
- Henry David Thoreau - In Dreams
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau - In Dreams
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
- Victor Hugo - In Education
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
- Henry David Thoreau - In Education
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol - In Equality
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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau - In Friendship
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The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
- Henry David Thoreau - In Friendship
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Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were hypocritical, Gore is shallow and weak, Bradley is an idealist, Bush Jr. a fool, and all of the independent candidates act like they're on drugs.
- David Borenstein - In Government
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Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.
- Elmer Davis - In Government
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If people behaved like governments, you'd call the cops.
- Kelvin Throop - In Government
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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
- Gore Vidal - In Government
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
- Calvin Coolidge - In History
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
- Irving R. Kaufman - In History
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What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the moment when we are suddently aware of the sweep and direction of the law, and its place in the lives of men.
- Irving R. Kaufman - In History
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The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
- Irving R. Kaufman - In History
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The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
- Irving R. Kaufman - In History
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I have one thing that counts, and that is my heart; it burns in my soul, it aches in my flesh, and it ignites my nerves: that is my love for the people and Peron.
- Evita Peron - In History
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Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
- Evita Peron - In History
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There are some oligarchs that make me want to bite them just as one crunches into a carrot or a radish.
- Evita Peron - In History
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Time is my greatest enemy.
- Evita Peron - In History
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When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.
- Evita Peron - In History
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Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.
- David M. Shoup - In History
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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
- Alexis de Tocqueville - In History
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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
- Victor Borge - In Humor
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
- Irvin S. Cobb - In Humor
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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes.
- William Davis - In Humor
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau - In Imagination
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I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
- Calvin Trillin - In Imagination
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I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.
- Peter Nivio Zarlenga - In Imagination
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Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.
- David Lodge - In Life
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau - In Life
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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau - In Life
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Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
- David Byrne - In Love
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Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
- David Grayson - In Love
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo - In Love
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Fortune and love favor the brave.
- Ovid - In Love
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If you want to be loved, be lovable.
- Ovid - In Love
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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
- Judith Viorst - In Love
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Love conquers all.
- Virgil - In Love
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I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
- Bette Davis - In Marriage
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One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
- Judith Viorst - In Marriage
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I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
- Bette Davis - In Movies
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo - In Music
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The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.
- Andre Segovia - In Music
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Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
- David Gerrold - In Nature
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When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
- Vincent Van Gogh - In Nature
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Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.
- Virgil A. Kraft - In Nature
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Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
- David Letterman - In Nature
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In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.
- Vince Poscente - In Nature
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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer - In Nature
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A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.
- Kevin Starr - In Nature
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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
- Henry David Thoreau - In Nature
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
- Henry David Thoreau - In Nature
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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
- Henry David Thoreau - In Nature
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Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
- Henry David Thoreau - In Nature
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Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
- Henry David Thoreau - In Nature
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The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
- Henry David Thoreau - In Nature
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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
- Henry David Thoreau - In Nature
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I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
- Henry David Thoreau - In Nature
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
- Henry David Thoreau - In Nature
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Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
- Leonardo da Vinci - In Nature
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Fragments came floating into his mind like bits of wood drifting down a stream, and he fished them out and fitted them together.
- Elizabeth Gray Vining - In Nature
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Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
- Calvin Coolidge - In Patriotism
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One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.
- David Borenstein - In Peace
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Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
- Ovid - In Peace
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Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
- Robertson Davies - In Politics
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There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
- Alexis de Tocqueville - In Politics
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
- Gore Vidal - In Politics
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
- Gore Vidal - In Politics
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
- Gore Vidal - In Politics
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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer - In Religion
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The dedicated physician is constantly striving for a balance between personal, human values, scientific realities and the inevitabilities of God's will.
- David Allman - In Science
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Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
- Sam Ervin - In Science
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
- Alvin Toffler - In Science
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What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
- Henry David Thoreau - In Society
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One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
- Alvin Toffler - In Society
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People think baseball players make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.
- Pete Incaviglia - In Sports
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Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
- Vince Lombardi - In Sports
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
- Vince Lombardi - In Sports
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If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
- Vince Lombardi - In Sports
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We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi - In Sports
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Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi - In Sports
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi - In Sports
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Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
- Vince Lombardi - In Sports
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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
- Irving Berlin - In Success
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A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
- David Brinkley - In Success
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Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
- David Frost - In Success
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It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.
- David Merrick - In Success
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Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.
- Kevin Spacey - In Success
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Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.
- Vincent Canby - In Technology
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Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau - In Technology
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The Present is a Point just passed.
- David Russell - In Time
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As if we could kill time without injuring eternity!
- Henry David Thoreau - In Time
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Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
- Henry David Thoreau - In Time
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Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!
- David G. Farragut - In War
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The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
- David Friedman - In War
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What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
- Henry David Thoreau - In War
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
- Victor Hugo - In Words to the Wise
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
- David Starr Jordan - In Words to the Wise
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All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau - In Words to the Wise
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As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
- Irvin S. Cobb - In Workplace
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
- Calvin Coolidge - In Workplace
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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi - In Workplace
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Nobody can be successful unless he loves his work.
- David Sarnoff - In Workplace
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Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.
- Stevie Wonder - In Workplace
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