Quotes
Quotes about Age
Taste: a quality possessed by persons without originality or moral courage.
Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, . . . thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wind-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.
The first duty of a lecturer--to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilage of the underprivilaged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses.
A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Temp'rate in every place--abroad, at home, Thence will applause, and hence will profit come; And health from either--he in time prepares For sickness, age, and their attendant cares.
I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people: they go commonly together.
O, could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme; Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.
Remarriage: A triumph of hope over experience.
Women are like fine wine. They all start out fresh, fruity and intoxicating to the mind and then they turn full-bodied with age until they go sour and vinegary and give you a headache.
The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.
We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.
For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkrs. The power of the car is separate from the way the car is driven.
A library is thought in cold storage.
The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.
The average person thinks he isn't.
Six hours in sleep is enough for youth and age. Perhaps seven for the lazy, but we allow eight to no one.
The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.
, HeartMath Discovery Program Time pressure starts to subside when we shift to the heart to find quality of mood and ease. It's our unmanaged emotions that turn time into an opponent and make life a rat race. Managing time with the heart is the ultimate time management tool. -Doc Childre.
Synchronicity is God sending us messages anonymously.
A timid person is frightened before danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
