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Diogenes:
  • When one is young, is too soon. When one is old, is too late.

    • Durant Will:
  • In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

    • Solon:
  • I grow old learning something new every day.

    • Aristophanes:
  • Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

    • Sylvia Plath:
  • I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am, I am, I am.

    • Leon Trotsky:
  • Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

    • Jack London:
  • Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

    • William Blake:
  • To see a World in a Grain of Sand
    And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
    And Eternity in an hour.

    • Foscolo,:
  • The glory of mighty men is given one quarter by their boldness, two quarters by luck and a quarter by their crimes.

    • Carl Rogers:
  • People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.

    • Beckett:
  • All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

    • Hemingway:
  • As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

    • Sunthorn Phu:
  • The worth of music, it includes all things Of untold value, like a priceless gem

    • Sinclair Lewis:
  • Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

    • Aitmatov:
  • There Will Be Winter, There Will Be Cold, There Will Be Snowstorms, But Then There Will Be Spring.. Again..”

    • Makame Faki:
  • Old habits can be a burden, when we have become so alike.

    • Bi Kidude:
  • When I sing, I become 14 years old.

    • Langston Hughes:
  • “Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.

    • Hypatia:
  • Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

    • Mayakovsky:
  • A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodes and by a stanza a city is blown to bits.

    • Rimbaud:
  • I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.

    • Antonio Machado:
  • “I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.”

    • Sergei Yesenin:
  • All will pass like smoke of white apple trees Seized by the gold of autumn, I will no longer be young.

    • Clementina Suarez:
  • I sing, bird alone. Only me, I sing alone. Oh how old is my song!

    • Srecko Kosovel:
  • There is no average between Old and New. The world is either old or new.

    • Aitmatov:
  • It is a pity the spirit does not grow old too.

    • Jonathan Swift:
  • Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

    • Solon:
  • Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

    • Bob Marley:
  • Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

    • John Steinbeck:
  • What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

    • Elder the Pliny:
  • Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

    • Gramsci:
  • The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born.

    • Aziz Nesin:
  • I know you'll break off
    I can't hold your hair
    But leave your smell with me

    • Alfred Musset:
  • I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.

    • Unamuno:
  • A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

    • Ted Hughes:
  • The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.

    • Nazrul:
  • Let's forget today who is friend or foe, and hold each other in caring embrace.

    • Amílcar Cabral:
  • “Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories...

    • Franz Kafka:
  • Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

    • Maxim Gorky:
  • “Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”

    • Plutarch:
  • An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

    • Shakespeare:
  • It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

    • Lucian:
  • “A monkey is always a monkey," says the proverb, "even if he has birth-tokens of gold." Although you have a book in your hand and read all the time, you do not under­stand a single thing that you read, but you are like the donkey that listens to the lyre and wags his ears.

    • Lenin:
  • A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

    • Nazrul:
  • I have met many young men, who have the skeletons of the old covered by the garb of youth. On the other hand, I have met many elderly people who are weighed down by age but beneath the cloud there lies the glorious sun of youth.

    • Pearl Buck:
  • Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

    • Hermann Hesse:
  • Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.

    • Wassily Kandinsky:
  • The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.

    • Tagore:
  • I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

    • Elvis Presley:
  • Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

    • Lucian:
  • There was no sign of Plato, and I was told later that he had gone to live in his Republic, where he was cheerfully submitting to his own Laws. [...] None of the Stoics were present. Rumour had it that they were still clambering up the steep hill of Virtue [...]. As for the Sceptics, it appeared that they were extremely anxious to get there, but still could not quite make up their minds whether or not the island really existed.

    • Thomas Paine:
  • To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.

    • Li Bai:
  • “To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows, We drained a hundred jugs of wine.

    • Quasimodo:
  • All my life, you've told me that the world is a dark, cruel place. But now I see that the only thing dark and cruel about it is people like you!”

    • Jalaluddin Rumi:
  • Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

    • Sappho:
  • Their heart grew cold / they let their wings down

    • Exupery:
  • Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

    • Hermann Hesse:
  • To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.

    • Tennyson:
  • Love is the only gold.

    • Boccaccio:
  • You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.”

    • Beethoven:
  • Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

    • Hector Berlioz:
  • Passionate subjects must be dealt with in cold blood

    • Remarque:
  • To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

    • Democritus:
  • The old man was once young but the young is not sure that will be old.

    • Gabriel Marquez:
  • It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

    • James Joyce:
  • Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.

    • Heinrich Heine:
  • The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle

    • Remarque:
  • I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.

    • Fitzgerald:
  • The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

    • Brendan Behan:
  • “I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

    • Jonathan Swift:
  • Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.

    • Isokratis:
  • We try gold in fire, we know our friends in mishaps.

    • Francis Bacon:
  • I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

    • Victor Hugo:
  • Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

    • Renoir:
  • With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today... what they did was sounder.

    • Saadawi:
  • “I now knew that all of us were prostitutes who sold themselves at varying prices, and that an expensive prostitute was better than a cheap one.”

    • Primo Levi:
  • Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable. For people of science, he is a hero. Denying man a privileged place in creation, .. he reaffirms with his own intellectual courage the dignity of man.

    • Galeano:
  • If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system keeps its old disguises.

    • Maya Angelou:
  • You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

    • Gabriel Marquez:
  • A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

    • Montaigne:
  • There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.”

    • Democritus:
  • Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness lives in the soul.

    • Jackson Pollock:
  • When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

    • Jules Verne:
  • We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.

    • Jack Kerouac:
  • You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

    • Maupassant:
  • We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs … of our barbarous ancestors.

    • Laozi:
  • Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.

    • Isaac Asimov:
  • It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?

    • Tennessee Williams:
  • You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.

    • Jack London:
  • Life is a strange thing. Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins. To live is to toil hard and to suffer sore, till old age creeps heavily upon us and we throw down our hands on the cold ashes of dead fires. It is hard to live. In pain the babe sucks his first breath, in pain the old man gasps his last, and all his days are full of trouble and sorrow; yet he goes down to the open arms of death, stumbling, falling, with head turned backward, fighting to the last. And death is kind. It is only life and the things of life that hurt. Yet we love life and we hate death. It is very strange.

    • B. W. Yeats:
  • When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

    • Anton Chekhov:
  • Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

    • Gandhi:
  • It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

    • L. Martin King,:
  • I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

    • Edith Piaf:
  • I don't want to die an old lady.

    • Bismarck von Otto:
  • Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

    • Buddha:
  • You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.
    Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

    • Vinci da Leonardo:
  • Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

    • Kazantzakis:
  • Two equally steep and bold paths may lead to the same peak. To act as if death did not exist, or to   act thinking every minute of death, is perhaps the same thing.

    • Virginia Woolf:
  • The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

    • Plutarch:
  • While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance of the Great King's army and demanded that the Greeks lay down their arms and submit to the might of Persia. Leonidas laconically told Xerxes, "Come and get them.”

    • Shakespeare:
  • The golden age is before us, not behind us.

    • Sophocles:
  • A man growing old becomes a child again.

    • Schiller:
  • Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told me in my childhood than any truth that is taught in life.

    • Ovid:
  • I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.

    • de Simone Beauvoir:
  • To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

    • Horace:
  • Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.

    • John Steinbeck:
  • The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

    • Leo Tolstoy:
  • We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

    • Cervantes:
  • There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

    • Bernard Shaw:
  • Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

    • Cicero:
  • No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.

    • Sigmund Freud:
  • How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

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