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A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.
— Mildred W. Struven
It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.
— Kossuth
Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under appropriate circumstances.
— William James
It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings  it is the soft  luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.
— Ouida
Unless a man has been kicked around a little  you can't really depend upon him to amount to anything.
— William Feather
Troubles cured you salty as a country ham  smoky to the taste  thick-skinned and tender inside.
— Marge Piercy
If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship  this pressure produces diamonds.
— Tatyana Tolstaya
Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
— Lou Holtz
It is not in the still calm of life  or the repose of a pacific station  that great characters are formed. ... Great necessities call out great virtues.
— Abigail Adams
Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.
— Josiah G. Holland
My luck was my father not striking oil... we'd have been rich. I'd never have set out for Hollywood with my camera  and I'd have had a lot less interesting life.
— King Vidor
[A difficult childhood gave me] a kind of cocky confidence. ... I could never have so little that I hadn't had less. It took away my fear.
— Jacqueline Cochran
If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days  you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
— Margot Asquith
I was lucky I wasn't a better boxer  or that's what I'd be now - a punchy ex-pug.
— Bob Hope
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life  the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
— Ellen Key
Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby  and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.
— Edith Sitwell
When I was very young  I tried selling used cars. It didn't last long. I guess that was my good luck too  that I didn't show more promise at it  or I might have been an automobile dealer.
— King Vidor
Supporting myself at an early age was the best training for life I could have possibly received.
— Lea Thompson
In my youth  poverty enriched me  but now I can afford wealth.
— Marc Chagall
I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. ... I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it.
— Henry Moore
The most valuable gift I ever received was ... the gift of insecurity ... my father left us. My mother's love might not have prepared me for life the way my father's departure did. He forced us out on the road  where we had to earn our bread.
— Lillian Gish
Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his sons the hardships that made him rich.
— Robert Frost
I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.
— J. C. Penney
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
— Anonymous
I thank God for my handicaps for  through them  I have found myself  my work  and my God.
— Helen Keller
When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts are frustrated  it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.
— Suzanne Massie
This struggle of people against their conditions  this is where you find the meaning in life.
— Rose Chernin
Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself  being free from flatterers.
— Samuel Johnson
In all things preserve integrity  and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business  soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments  and give thee an humble confidence before God  when the ingratitude of man  or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.
— Barbara Paley
He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
— Samuel Johnson
Adversity leads us to think properly of our state  and so is most beneficial to us.
— Samuel Johnson
In the depth of winter  I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
— Albert Camus
Who hath not known ill fortune  never knew himself  or his own virtue.
— David Mallett
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
— Henry Fielding
I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline  the sensations  but chiefly the opportunity to think clearly  to try to understand things.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.
— Thomas Bernhard
Difficulties are things that show what men are.
— Epictetus
Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses  it would still be just to deem it good for something.
— Jean de la Fontaine
Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affection or grief has humanized the soul.
— Frederick W. Robertson
Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.
— Sir Boyle Roche
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch  what make you go beyond the norm.
— Cicely Tyson
A woman is like a tea bag: you never know her strength until you drop her in hot water.
— Nancy Reagan
Trouble brings experience  and experience brings wisdom.
— Anonymous
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents  which  in prosperous circumstances  would have lain dormant.
— Horace
Adversity is a severe instructor. ... He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
— Edmund Burke
Experience is a good teacher  but she sends in terrific bills.
— Minna Antrim
Forget the times of your distress  but never forget what they taught you.
— Herbert Gasser
You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.
— Christy Mathewson
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
— English proverb
When a man is pushed  tormented  defeated  he has a chance to learn something  he has been put on his wits ... he has gained facts  learned his ignorance  is cured of the insanity of conceit  has got moderation and real skill.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
From their errors and mistakes  the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
— Plutarch
By becoming more unhappy  we sometimes learn how to be less so.
— Madame Swetchine
Every experience  however bitter  has its lesson  and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.
— Edward Howard Griggs
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
— Edgar Watson Howe
It is from the level of calamities ... that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
When I have listened to my mistakes  I have grown.
— Hugh Prather
We only think when we are confronted with a problem.
— John Dewey
Adversity comes with instruction in its hand.
— Anonymous
Mistakes are often the best teachers.
— James A. Froude
Pain  indolence  sterility  endless ennui have also their lesson for you.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prosperity is a great teacher  adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind  privation trains and strengthens it.
— William Hazlitt
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
— George Santayana
You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
— George Bernard Shaw
I have always grown from my problems and challenges  from the things that don't work out. That's when I've really learned.
— Carol Burnett
Those things that hurt  instruct.
— Benjamin Franklin
Pain is the root of knowledge.
— Simone Weil
Life can be real tough ... you can either learn from your problems  or keep repeating them over and over.
— Marie Osmond
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes  and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
— Francis Bacon
If we had no winter  the spring would not be so pleasant  if we did not sometimes taste of adversity  prosperity would not be so welcome.
— Anne Bradstreet
The good things that belong to prosperity are to be wished  but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
One who was adored by all in prosperity is abhorred by all in adversity.
— Baltasar Gracian
Prosperity provideth  but adversity proveth friends.
— Queen Elizabeth I
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience  the task of surviving prosperity.
— Alan Gregg
Adversity reveals genius  prosperity conceals it.
— Horace
The virtue of prosperity is temperance  the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
— Francis Bacon
In the day of prosperity be joyful  but in the day of adversity consider.
— Bible
In victory even the cowardly like to boast  while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
— Sallust
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man  but for one man who can stand prosperity  there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
— Thomas Carlyle
Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
— Robert Alden
Hope begins in the dark  the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing  the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
— Anne Lamott
Truth  like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil  however deeply sown  will make its way to the light.
— Ellis Peters
Flowers grow out of dark moments.
— Corita Kent
I have brightness in my soul  which strains toward Heaven. I am like a bird!
— Jenny Lind
When it is dark enough  you can see the stars.
— Charles A. Beard
All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations  if they are accepted.
— Janet Erskine Stuart
Often God has to shut a door in our face  so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go.
— Catharine Marshall
God will not look you over for medals  degrees or diplomas  but for scars.
— Anonymous
He who serves God with what costs him nothing  will do very little service  you may depend on it.
— Susan Warner
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference  by philosophy  and by religion.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us.
— Mary Baker Eddy
The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way: an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.
— William Hazlitt
Constant success shows us but one side of the world  adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
— Walter Colton
Sweet are the uses of adversity  Which  like the toad  ugly and venomous  Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
— William Shakespeare
There is no education like adversity.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The incessant witless repetition of advertisers' moron-fodder has become so much a part of life that if we are not careful  we forget to be insulted by it.
— The London Times
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
— Brendan Behan
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
— Henry Ward Beecher
If it doesn't sell  it isn't creative.
— David Ogilvy
In advertising not to be different is virtually suicidal.
— Bill Bernback
Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
— Northrop Frye
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
— Stephen Leacock
The best ad is a good product.
— Alan H. Meyer
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.
— William Feather
The number of agency people required to shoot a commercial on location is in direct proportion to the mean temperature of the location.
— Shelby Page
Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
— Jerry Delia Femina
Buy me and you will overcome the anxieties I have just reminded you of.
— Michael Schudson
If I were starting life over again  I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half-century would have been impossible without that spreading of the knowledge of higher standards by means of advertising.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Promise  large promise  is the soul of an advertisement.
— Samuel Johnson
The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived  less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be seduced.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.
— Aldous Huxley
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
— J. K. Galbraith
The art of publicity is a black art.
— Learned Hand
Advertising is legalized lying.
— H. G. Wells
Advertising is what you do when you can't go to see somebody. That's all it is.
— Fairfax Cone
The consumer is not a moron. She's your wife.
— David Ogilvy
When business is good it pays to advertise  when business is bad you've got to advertise.
— Anonymous
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
— George Norman Douglas
Advertisements contain the only truth to be relied on in a newspaper.
— Thomas Jefferson
But one must know where one stands  and where the others wish to go.
— Goethe
No man ever listened himself out of a job.
— Calvin Coolidge
Thanksgiving comes after Christmas.
— Peter Kreeft
The proverb warns that  "You should not bite the hand that feeds you." But maybe you should  if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
— Thomas Szasz
I remember my father telling me the story of the preacher delivering an exhortation to his flock  and as he reached the climax of his exhortation  a man in the front row got up and said  'O Lord  use me. Use me  O Lord - in an advisory capacity!'
— Adlai Stevenson
Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
— Benjamin Disraeli
To make pleasure pleasant  shorten.
— Charles Buxton
Put all thine eggs in one basket and - watch that basket.
— Mark Twain
It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
— Cicero
Don't offer me advice  give me money.
— Spanish proverb
If you aren't rich  you should always look useful.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
He who can lick can bite.
— French proverb
When a man comes to me for advice  I find out the kind of advice he wants  and I give it to him.
— Josh Billings
We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask  for we never tell him all  and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct.
— Diane de Poitiers
I give myself  sometimes  admirable advice  but I am incapable of taking it.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Advice is like snow  the softer it falls  the longer it dwells upon  and the deeper it sinks into  the mind.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Be yourself!' is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
— Tom Masson
A bull does not enjoy fame in two herds.
— Rhodesian proverb
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
— Mark Twain
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
— Oscar Wilde
There is little serenity comparable to the serenity of the inexperienced giving advice to the experienced.
— Anonymous
Advice is seldom welcome  and those who want it the most always like it the least.
— Lord Chesterfield
It is well enough  when one is talking to a friend  to lodge in an odd word by way of counsel now and then  but there is something mighty irksome in its staring upon one in a letter  where one ought to see only kind words and friendly remembrances.
— Mary Lamb
Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel  for it does not easily deface their own character  nor render their purposes indistinct.
— Arthur Helps
Have more than thou showest  Speak less than thou knowest.
— William Shakespeare
What you don't see with your eyes  don't invent with your tongue.
— Jewish proverb
If you keep your mind sufficiently open  people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.
— William A. Orton
Don't fight forces  use them.
— Buckminster Fuller
Drink nothing without seeing it  sign nothing without reading it.
— Spanish proverb
What is important is to keep learning  to enjoy challenge  and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.
— Marina Horner
Simplicity  simplicity  simplicity. I say  let your affairs be as two or three  and not a hundred or a thousand  instead of a million count half a dozen  and keep your accounts on your thumbnail.
— Henry David Thoreau
You must not think  sir  to catch old birds with chaff.
— Cervantes
Never give advice in a crowd.
— Arab proverb
Never give advice unless asked.
— German proverb
Whatever advice you give  be short.
— Horace
Old men are fond of giving good advice  to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.
— La Rochefoucauld
We give advice  but we do not inspire conduct.
— La Rochefoucauld
Good counsel has no price.
— Guiseppe Mazzini
Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
— Spanish proverb
Many receive advice  only the wise profit by it.
— Syrus
Admonish your friends privately  but praise them openly.
— Syrus
The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.
— Thomas Carlyle
Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.
— Bible
Be still  sad heart  and cease repining  Behind the clouds the sun is shining  Thy fate is the common fate of all  Into each life some rain must fall  -  Some days must be dark and dreary.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Youth is a blunder  Manhood a struggle  Old Age a regret.
— Benjamin Disraeli
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom  and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Old wood best to burn  old wine to drink  old friends to trust  and old authors to read.
— Sir Francis Bacon
At 20 years of age the will reigns  at 30 the wit  at 40 the judgment.
— Benjamin Franklin
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows  let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.
— James A. Garfield
The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: "The work is done."
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Study until twenty-five  investigation until forty  profession until sixty  at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
— William Osier
In youth the days are short and the years are long  in old age the years are short and the days long.
— Panin
The days of our years are threescore years and ten  and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years  yet is their strength labour and sorrow  for it is soon cut off  and we fly away.
— Bible
The first forty years of life give us the text  the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
— Schopenhauer
Age cannot wither her  nor custom stale Her infinite variety.
— William Shakespeare
An old man is twice a child.
— William Shakespeare
The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.
— Oscar Wilde
Age and treachery will triumph over youth and skill.
— Anonymous
All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so  would I?
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
All would live long  but none would be old.
— Benjamin Franklin
An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too  and that maketh him very wary.
— George Saville
An old man loved is Winter with flowers.
— German proverb
An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
But  Lord Crist! whan that it remembreth me Upon my yowthe  and on my jolitee  It tickleth me aboute myn herte roote. Unto this day it dooth myn herte boote That I have had my world as in my tyme. But age  alias! that al wole envenyme  Hath me biraft my beautee and my pith. Lat go  farewel! the devel go therwith! The flour is goon  ther is namoore to telle  The bren  as I best kan  now most I selle.
— Geoffrey Chaucer
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be  The last of life  for which the first was made: Our times are in his hands Who sayeth "a whole I plant  Youth shows but half  Trust God  see all nor be afraid."
— Robert Browning
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.
— Anthony Powell
Here's a new day. 0 Pendulum move slowly!
— Harold Munro
I am 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were 15 months in every year  I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women  for example  I think they deserve to have more than 12 years between the ages of 28 and 40.
— James Thurber
I am just turning 40 and taking my time about it.
— Harold Lloyd
I haven't asked you to make me young again. All I want is to go on getting older.
— Konrad Adenauer
I refuse to admit that I am more than 52  even if that makes my sons illegitimate.
— Nancy Lady Astor
If I'd known I was gonna live this long (100 years)  I'd have taken better care of myself.
— James Hubert Blake
If the young only knew  if the old only could.
— French saying
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
— William Shakespeare
Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden deaths do.
— Richard Hughes
Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.
— Lord Cecil
Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.
— Gerald Brenan
The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.
— T. S. Eliot
The old repeat themselves and the young have nothing to say. The boredom is mutual.
— Jacques Bainville
There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
— Old saying
Time goes by: reputation increases  ability declines.
— Dag Hammarskjold
To keep the heart unwrinkled  to be hopeful  kindly  cheerful  reverent -that is to triumph over old age.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have moldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty  interest after interest  attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.
— William Hazlitt
Wrinkles - the service stripes of life.
— Anonymous
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
One of the delights known to age  and beyond the grasp of youth  is that of 'not going'!
— J. B. Priestley
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
— Arnold Bennett
The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.
— Simone de Beauvoir
Middle age: when you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
— Ogden Nash
No Spring  nor Summer beauty hath such grace  As I have seen in one Autumnal face.
— John Donne
If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in  you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.
— I. F. Stone
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
— Voltaire
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
— Andri Maurois
Old age is an island surrounded by death.
— Juan Montalvo
It is time to be old  To take in sail.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I feel age like an icicle down my back.
— Dyson Carter
Old age is a time of humiliations  the most disagreeable of which  for me  is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
— Igor Stravinsky
Dignity  high station  or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men  in order to keep the younger at a distance  who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.
— Jonathan Swift
The young feel tired at the end of an action  The old at the beginning.
— T. S. Eliot
Old foxes want no tutors.
— Thomas Fuller
Old birds are hard to pluck.
— German proverb
A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.
— William Feather
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
— Satchel Paige
Before you contradict an old man  my fair friend  you should endeavour to understand him.
— George Santayana
Zsa Zsa Gabor  when asked which of the Gabor women was the oldest  said "She'll never admit it  but I believe it is Mama." When men grow virtuous in their old age  they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
— Jonathan Swift
When you are forty  half of you belongs to the past. . . And when you are seventy  nearly all of you.
— Jean Anouilh
To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.
— Maxim Gorky
By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
One trouble with growing older is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure who didn't amount to much when he was your age.
— Bill Vaughan
Forty is the old age of youth  fifty is the youth of old age.
— Victor Hugo
Middle age is youth without its levity  And age without decay.
— Daniel Defoe
And he (King David) died in a good old age  full of days  riches and honour.
— Bible
I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.
— Robert Frost
Old age is by nature rather talkative.
— Cicero
Old age  especially an honoured old age  has so great authority  that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
— Cicero
Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.
— Pietro Aretino
To me  old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
— Bernard Baruch
Few people know how to be old.
— La Rochefoucauld
First you forget names  then you forget faces  then you forget to pull your zipper up  then you forget to pull your zipper down.
— Leo Rosenberg
I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.
— Owen D. Young
He had come to that time in his life (it varies for every man) when a human being gives himself over to his demon or to his genius  according to a mysterious law which orders him either to destroy or to surpass himself.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
The individual succumbs  but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
— Will Durant
So  lively brisk old fellow  don't let age get you down. White hairs or not  you can still be a lover.
— Goethe
He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
— William Cowper
Let us respect gray hairs  especially our own.
— J. P. Senn
The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.
— Plato
A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost: and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
An old codger  rampant  and still learning.
— Aldous Huxley
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.
— Finley Peter Dunne
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people  and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo  The Last Puritan  and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age  I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure  more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.
— George Santayana
The arctic loneliness of age.
— S. Weir Mitchell
When pain ends  gain ends too.
— Robert Browning
No gains without pains.
— Adlai Stevenson
Longevity is having a chronic disease and taking care of it.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
— Tom Stoppard
I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone  but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many people don't have that privilege.'
— Earl Warren
When I was very young  I was disgracefully intolerant but when I passed the thirty mark I prided myself on having learned the beautiful lesson that all things were good  and equally good. That  however  was really laziness. Now  thank goodness  I've sorted out what matters and what doesn't. And I'm beginning to be intolerant again.
— G. B. Stern
It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child  while not being loved as a child is loved  but merely being kept alive against one's will.
— Malcolm Cowley
Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth  but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.
— Dagobert Runes
Your old men shall dream dreams  your young men shall see visions.
— Bible
I am long on ideas  but short on time. I expect to live only about a hundred years.
— Thomas A. Edison
How beautifully the leaves grow old. How full of light and colour are their last days.
— John Burroughs
In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.
— T. S. Eliot
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
— Jean Paul Richter
The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom  and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
When you reach your sixties  you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty  some degree of asceticism is inevitable.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
Yes  I'm 68  but when I was a boy I was too poor to smoke  so knock off ten years. That makes me 58. And since I never developed the drinking habit  you can knock off ten more years. So I'm 48 - in the prime of my life. Retire? Retire to what?
— W. A. C. Bennett
Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy  I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this  too  shall pass!'
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Senescence begins And middle age ends  The day your descendants Outnumber your friends.
— Ogden Nash
On the day of his death  in his eightieth year  Elliot  'the Apostle of the Indians ' was found teaching an Indian child at his bedside. 'Why not to rest from your labours now?' asked a friend. 'Because ' replied the venerable man  'I have prayed God to render me useful in my sphere  and he has heard my prayers  for now that I can no longer preach  he leaves me strength enough to teach this poor child the alphabet.'
— S. Chaplin
As the world is wearie of me so am I of it.
— John Knox
Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.
— Anonymous
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
— Jonathan Swift
Every man who has lived his life to the full should  by the time his senior years are reached  have established a reserve inventory of unfinished thinking.
— Clarence Randall
For the unlearned  old age is winter  for the learned  it is the season of the harvest.
— Hasidic saying
My opportunities were still there  nay  they multiplied tenfold  but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail  and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.
— George Bernard Shaw
I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be  I always forget to include myself.
— George Burns
We grow neither better nor worse as we get old  but more like ourselves
— May Lamberton Becker
Golden lads and girls all must  As chimney-sweepers  come to dust.
— William Shakespeare
It's never too late to have a fling For autumn is just as nice as spring And it's never too late to fall in love.
— Sandy Wilson
Growing old - it's not nice  but it's interesting.
— August Strindberg
If you think that I am going to bother myself again before I die about social improvement  or read any of those stinking upward and onwarders - you err - I mean to have some good out of being old.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
— Malcolm Cowley
I have learned little from the years that fly  but I have wrung the colour from the years.
— Frances Pollock
Earth is here so kind  that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
— Douglas Jerrold
A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.
— Ovid
Praise a large domain  cultivate a small estate.
— Virgil
Blessed be agriculture! If one does not have too much of it.
— Charles Dudley
When tillage begins  other arts follow. The farmers  therefore  are the founders of human civilization.
— Daniel Webster
When you are aspiring to the highest place  it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
— Cicero
Hitch your wagon to a star.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
— John Milton
When that the poor have cried  Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious  And Brutus is an honourable man.
— William Shakespeare
If you wish to reach the highest  begin at the lowest.
— Syrus
Ambition destroys its possessor.
— Talmud
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power  a little transient fame  A grave to rest in  and a fading name!
— William Winter
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
— President William J. Clinton
The office of the president is such a bastardized thing  half royalty and half democracy  that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.
— Jimmy Breslin
Part of the American dream is to live long and die young.
— Edgar Z. Friedenberg
America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true  and the opposite is probably equally true.
— James T. Farrell
If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York.
— O. Henry
If you don't want to use the army  I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully 
— Abraham Lincoln
Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth  that there are no gains without pains.
— Adlai Stevenson
Ours is the country where  in order to sell your product  you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.
— Louis Kronenberger
People who leave Washington D.C. do so by way of the box - ballot or coffin.
— Claiborne Pell
Poor Mexico  so far from God and so near to the United States.
— Porfirio Diaz
That strange blend of the commercial traveller  the missionary and the barbarian conqueror  which was the American abroad.
— Olaf Stapledon
The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game ! and lost.
— Murray Kepton
The President spends most of his time kissing people on the cheek in order to get them to do what they ought to do without getting kissed.
— Harry S. Truman
The real America that Whitman proclaimed and Thoreau decoded.
— Allen Ginsberg
Thou  oh my country  hast thy foolish ways  Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70  or given up all hope of the Presidency.
— Wendell Phillips
America is a willingness of the heart.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
— Oscar Wilde
We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity  or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.
— Earl Warren
Nothing ever gets settled in this town (Washington). It's not like running a company or even a university. It's a seething debating society  in which the debate never stops  in which people never give up  including me  and that's the atmosphere in which you administer.
— George P. Shultz
The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.
— Ayn Rand
Whoever wants to know the hearts and minds of America had better learn baseball.
— Jacques Barzun
Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.
— Robert Frost
America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.
— Murray Kempton
The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century.
— Anonymous
Delaware: a state that has three counties when the tide is out  and two when it is in.
— J. J. Ingalls
Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
The Americans believe they answered all first questions in 1776: since then they've just been hammering out the practical details.
— Ray Smith
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
— Lewis Mumford
Americans have a special horror of letting things happen their own way  without interference. They would like to jump down their stomachs  digest the food  and shovel the shit out.
— William Burroughs
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came  an Indian said simply 'Ours.'
— Vine Deloria
In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars  for all passengers  being Americans  are equal and it would be 'unAmerican.' But paint 'Pullman' on a car and everyone is satisfied.
— Owen Wister
The true America is the Middle West  and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.
— W. L. George
America once had the clarity of a pioneer axe.
— Robert Osborn
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.
— Gertrude Stein
You say to your soldier  'Do this' and he does it. But I am obliged to say to the American  'This is why you ought to do this' and then he does it.
— Baron von Steuben
The greatest American superstition is belief in facts.
— Hermann Keyserling
America should care more for its poor and reform itself in other ways  but even if it won't do those things  it remains the least constrained society on earth.
— Robert M. Adams
Florida: God's waiting room.
— Glenn le Grice
The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible  like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist.
— John Updike
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right  it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
— G. K. Chesterton
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
— H. L. Mencken
Good Americans  when they die  go to Paris.
— Thomas Gold Appleton
The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
— Stephen Leacock
The American's conversation is much like his courtship ... He gives an inkling and watches for a reaction  if the weather looks fair  he inkles a little more. Wishing neither to intrude nor be intruded upon  he advances by stages of acceptance  by levels of agreement  by steps of concurrence.
— Donald Lloyd
The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.
— June Callwood
A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.
— V. S. Pritchett
New York is notoriously inhospitable to the past  disowning it whenever it can.
— John D. Rosenberg
Why  if you're not in New York you are camping out.
— Thomas W. Dewing
That enfabled rock  that ship of life  that swarming  million-footed  tower-masted  sky-soaring citadel that bears the magic name of the Island of Manhattan.
— Thomas Wolfe
I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick.
— Nikita Khrushchev
New York  the nation's thyroid gland.
— Christopher Morley
You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great  big  vulgar  bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle  with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.
— Harold Macmillan
As for what you're calling hard luck - well  we made New England out of it. That and codfish.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere  it is not this sort of licence that distinguishes New York. It is  rather  a lust of the total ego for recognition  even for eminence. More than elsewhere  everybody here wants to be Somebody.
— Sydney J. Harris
After twenty annual visits  I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.
— Cecil Beaton
He speaks English with the flawless imperfection of a New Yorker.
— Gilbert Millstein
A town that has no ceiling price  A town of double-talk  A town so big men name her twice  Like so: 'N'Yawk  N'Yawk.'
— Christopher Morley
And this is good old Boston The home of the bean and the cod - Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots  And the Cabots talk only to God.
— J. C. Bossidy
New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice  not Milan  while the American empire careens onward toward its predicted end ... it is the first American section to be finished  to achieve stability in the conditions of its life. It is the first old civilization  the first permanent civilization in America.
— Bernard de Voto
A Bostonian - an American  broadly speaking.
— G. E. Woodberry
The swaggering underemphasis of New England.
— Heywood Broun
A well-established village in New England or the northern Middle-West could afford a town drunkard  a town atheist  and a few Democrats.
— D. W. Brogan
I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachussets  she needs none. There she is. Behold her  and judge for yourselves.
— Daniel Webster
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.
— George Santayana
America - the best poor man's country in the world.
— William Allen
Chicago - a facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade every type of dubiousness.
— E. M. Forster
I'm from Indiana  the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.
— Thomas R. Marshall
Pennsylvania  the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts  and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.
— J. J. Ingalls
Stormy  husky  brawling  City of the Big Shoulders.
— Carl Sandburg
I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats  and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me.
— Willard D. Vandiver
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
— J. K. Galbraith
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America  but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
— Saul Bellow
Washington is a city of people doing badly what shouldn't be done at all.
— Robert H. Gurney
America and its demons  Europe and its ghosts.
— Le Monde
0 beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed his grace on thee  And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!
— Katharine Lee Bates
America is a country of young men.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hail  Columbia! happy land! Hail  ye heroes! heavenborn band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.
— Joseph Hopkinson
America is a tune. It must be sung together.
— Gerald Stanley Lee
Thou  too  sail on  O Shipof State! Sail on  O Union  strong and great! Humanity with all its fears  With all the hopes of future years  Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
— Douglas MacArthur
I was born an American  I live an American  I shall die an American.
— Daniel Webster
Some Americans need hyphens in their names  because only part of them has come over  but when the whole man has come over  heart and thought and all  the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.
— Woodrow Wilson
This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
— F. D. Roosevelt
America is God's crucible  the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming!... The Real American has not yet arived. He is only in the crucible  Itell you - he will be the fusion of all races  the common superman.
— Israel Zangwill
A degenerate nobleman  or one that is proud of his birth  is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.
— Nicholas Murray Butler
My father was a Creole  his father a Negro  and his father a monkey  my family  it seems  begins where yours left off.
— Alexander Dumas
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors  and no slave who has not had a king among his.
— Helen Keller
Noble ancestry makes a poor dish at table.
— Italian proverb
People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.
— Macaulay
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
— Voltaire
Anger is one of the sinners of the soul.
— Thomas Fuller
It's my rule never to lose my temper until it would be detrimental to keep it.
— Sean O'Casey
Who can refute a sneer?
— William Paley
I never work better than when I am inspired by anger  for when I am angry  I can write  pray  and preach well  for then my whole temperament is quickened  my understanding sharpened  and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.
— Martin Luther
There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgement as doth anger.
— Michel de Montaigne
Don't get mad  get even.
— Robert F. Kennedy
I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath  my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not  my wrath did grow.
— William Blake
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anger makes dull men witty  but it keeps them poor.
— Anonymous
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned  Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
— William Congreve
Anger as soon as fed is dead - Tis starving makes it fat.
— Emily Dickinson
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
— Frank Moore Colby
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
— W. R. Alger
Anger makes dull men witty  but it keeps them poor.
— Francis Bacon
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes.
— Anonymous
Never answer a letter while you are angry.
— Chinese proverb
When angry  count four  when very angry  swear.
— Samuel L. Clemens
Heav'n has no rage  like love to hatred turn'd  Nor Hell a fury  like a woman scorn'd.
— William Congreve
Anger is momentary madness  so control your passion or it will control you.
— Horace
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question  every one should be serene  slow-pulsed  and calm.
— Charles J. Ingersoll