Fashion Quotes

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid of being overtaken.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English essayist.

Fashion is that by which the fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
Osacr Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author.

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, heaven knows, anything goes.
Cole Porter (1893-1964) American composer, lyricist.

A fashionable woman is always in love with herself.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions.

Out had as good be out of the world as out of the fashion.
Colley Cibber (1671-1757) English actor manager, playwright.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
Coco Chanel (1883-1971) French couturiere.

After all, what is fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author.

It is true of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe the fashions of the place where he is.
Montaigne.

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
E.H. Chapin.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Thoreau.

Fashion is, for the most part, nothing but the ostentation of riches.
Locke.

Without depth of thought, or earnestness of feeling, or strength of purpose, living an unreal life, sacrificing substance to show, substituting the fictitious for the natural, mistaking a crowd for society, finding its chief pleasure in ridicule, and exhausting its ingenuity in expedients for killing time, fashion is among the last influences under which a human being who respects himself, or who comprehends the great end of life, would desire to be placed.
Channing.

A top of fashion is the mercer’s friend, the tailor’s fool and his own for.
Lavater.

Change of fashions is the tax which industry imposes on the vanity of the rich.
Chamfort.

Fashion in gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid of being overtaken by it. It is a sign the two things are not far asunder.
Hazlitt.

Fashion is a word which knaves and fools may use to excuse their knavery and folly.
Churchill.

The mere leader of fashion has no genuine claim to supremacy; at least no abiding assurance of it. He has embroidered his title upon his waistcoat, and carries his worth in his watch chain; and if he is allowed any real precedence for this, it is almost a oral swindle a way of obtaining goods under false pretences.
E.H.Chapin.

Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep them.
Pascal.

Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency.
Tuckerman.

Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance; the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.
Emerson.

The fashion doth wear out more apparel the man.
Shakespeare.

He alone is a man, who can resist the genius of the age, the tone of fashion, with vigorous simplicity and modest courage.
Lavater.

Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes, than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting them.
Joubert.

Failure Quotes

There is not a fiercer hell than failure in a great object.
John Keats (1795-1821) English Poet.

We are all of us failures at least, the best of us are.
James M.Barrie (1860-1937) British playwright.

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish author.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is: Try to please everybody.
Herbert B.Swope (1882-1958) American journalist.

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.

There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially but with a certain air of majesty; like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.

He was a self made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
Joseph Heller (b.1923) American novelist.

It is mighty presumptuous on your part to suppose your small failures of so much consequence that you must talk about them.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) American writer, physician.

A man’s life manifests itself as a failure; what he has attempted he will not achieve. He will not even succeed in thinking what he wants to think or in feeling what he wants to feel.
Jean Paul Sartr (1905-1980) French philosopher, author.

Everyone is born a king and most people die in exile.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo – Irish author.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.
Chinese proverb.

We mount to heaven mostly on the ruins of our cherished schemes, finding our failures were successes.
A.B.Alcott.

Every failure is a step to success; every detection of what is false directs us toward what is true; every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. Not only so, but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely and theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth.
Whewell.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
Dowden.

Failure is often God’s own tool for carving some of the finest outlines in the character of his children; and, even in this life, bitter and crushing failures have often in them the germs of new and quite unimagined happiness.
T.Hodgkin.

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
Whately.

Failures is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
Keats.

It is an awful condemnation for a man to be brought by God’s providence face to face with a great possibility of service and of blessing, and then to show himself such that God has to put him aside, and look for other instruments.
McLaren.

In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.
Bulwer.

They never fail who die in a great cause.
Byron.

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.
Farrar.

Only the astrologer and the empiric never fail.
Willmott.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
Bovee.

Fiction Quotes

Fiction is Truth’s elder sister.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) British author.

For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.
W.Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) British author.

The novel if it be anything, is contemporary history, an exact and complete reproduction of social surroundings of the age we live in.
George Moore (1852-1933) Irish author.

In the true novel as opposed to reportage and chronicle the main action takes place inside the characters skull and ribs.
Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) British author.

Generally speaking people are plagued with problems that they are unable to solve. To escape them they pick up a detective story, become completely absorbed, help bring the investigation to a successful conclusion, switch off the light and go to sleep.
Erle Stanley Gardner (1899-1970) American author.

The thriller is an extension of the fairy tale. It is melodrama so embellished as to create the illusion that the story being told, however unlikely could be true.
Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) American author.

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.
Franklin P.Adams ( 1881-1960) American journalist, humorist.

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.
Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) Italian playwright.

The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.
V.S.Pritchett (b.1900) British writer, critic.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo – Irish author.

Man is a poetical animal and delights in fiction.
Hazlitt.

Fiction allures to the severe task by a gayer preface. Embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.
Willmott.

I have often maintained that fiction may be much more instructive than real history.
John Foster.

Every fiction that has ever laid strong hold on human belief is the mistaken image of some great truth.
Martineau.

Fiction is no longer a mere amusement; but transcendent genius, accommodating itself to the character of the age, has seized upon this province of literature, and turned fiction from a toy into a mighty engine.
Channing.

The most influential books and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, rearrange, and clarify the lessons of life, disengage us from ourselves, constrain us to the acquaintance of others, and show us the web of experience, but with a single change. The monstrous, consuming ego of ours struck out.
R.L.Stevenson.

The best histories may sometimes be those in which a little of the exaggeration of fictitious narrative is judiciously employed. Something is lost in accuracy, but much is gained in effect. The fainter lines are neglected, but the great characteristic features are imprinted on the mind forever.
Macaulay.

Fiction is not falsehood, as some seem to think. It is rather the fanciful and dramatic grouping of real traits around imaginary scenes or characters. It may give false views of men or things, or it may, in the hands of a master, more truthfully portray life than sober history itself.
Tryon Edwards.

Those who delight in the study of human nature, may improve in the knowledge of it, and in the profitable application of it by the perusal of the best selected fictions.
Whately.

Father Quotes

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

No man is responsible for his father. That is entirely his mother’s affair.
Margaret Turnbull (1890-1942) American writer, politician.

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
Austin O’Malley (1858-1942) American oculist, writer.

To be a successful father there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) American author.

What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!
Terence (c.190-159 BC) Roman dramatist.

The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance.
R.B. Sheridan (1751-1816) Anglo-Irish dramatist.

One father is more than a hundred school masters.
17th century English Proverb.

Leontine: An only son, sir, might expect more indulgence.
Croaker: An only father, sir, might expect more obedience.

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
Robert Burton (1577-1640) English clergyman, author.

Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned below over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said “Box about twill come to my father anon.”
John Aubrey (1626 – 1697) English antiquary.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author.

The father’s thankless position in the family is to be everybody’s breadwinner, everybody’s enemy.
August Strindberg (1849-1912) Swedish dramatist.

His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.
J.P. Marquand (1893-1960) American novelist.

In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
Croesus (d.c.560 BC) Lydian king.

You are a kind of father figure to me, Dad.
Alan Coren (b.1938) British editor, humorist.

Education Quotes

There’s a new tribunal now, higher than God’s – The educated man’s!

Robert Browning (1812-1889) English poet.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist.

Educate men without religion and you make them but clever devils.

Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) English soldier, statesman.

Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?

Ronald Reagan (b.1911) American president

Economy Quotes

Only one fellow in ten thousand understand the currency question, and we meet him everyday.

Kin (F.McKinney) Hubbard (1868-1930) American humorist, journalist.

I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years in college.

Hubert Humphrey (1911-1978) American Democratic Politician.

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic.

Call a thing immoral or ugly… a peril to the peace of the world or to the well being of future generations: as long as you have not shown it to be “uneconomic” you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow and prosper.

E.F. Schumacher (1911-1977) American author.

Drink Quotes

O God! That men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains.

Malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.

A.E. Houseman (1859-1936) British poet, classical scholar.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature.

William James (1842-1910) American psychologist, philosopher.

The heart which grief hath cankered

Hath one unfailing remedy – the Tankard.

C.S. Calverley (1831-1884) English poet.

Dress Quotes

Dress has a moral effect upon the conduct of mankind. Let any gentleman find himself with dirty boots, old sort-out, soiled neck cloth, and a general negligence of dress, and he will, in all probability, find a corresponding disposition in negligence of address.

Sir. J. Barrington.

As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends.

Dress is the table of your contents.

Lavater.

Out of clothes, out of countenance; out of countenance, out of wit.

Ben Johnson.

A becoming decency of exterior may not be necessary for ourselves, but is agreeable to others; and while it may render a fool more contemptible, it serves to embellish inherent worth. It is like the polish of the diamond, taking something perhaps from its weight, but adding much to its brilliancy.

David Paul Brown.

Dream Quotes

We never stop seeing, perhaps this is why we dream.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( 1749-1832)

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) Italian author, playwright.

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.

Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) French writer, film director.

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there any danger of their becoming true.

Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) Anglo-American essayist.

In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day’s caravan.

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Indian author, philosopher.

When we can’t dream any longer we die.

Emma Goldman (1869-1940) American anarchist.

Children of the night, of indigestion bred.

Churchill.

A world of the dead in the hues of life.

Mrs. Hemans.

Dreams full oft are found of a real events the forms and shadows.

Joanna Baillie.

We have in dreams no true perception of time a strange property of mind! For if such be also its property when entered into the eternal disembodied state, time will appear to us eternity! The relations of space as well as of time are also annihilated, so that while almost eternity is compressed into a moment, infinite space is traversed more swiftly than by real thought.

Winslow.

We are somewhat more than ourselves in our sleeps, and the slumber of the body seems to be but the walking of the soul. It is the litigation of sense, but the liberty of reason; and our walking conceptions do not match the fancies of our sleeps.

Sir. J.Browne.

As dreams are the fancies of those that sleep, so fancies are but the dreams of those awake.

Blount.

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in walking, would make every man a Dante or a Shakespeare.

Hedge.

Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls.

Shakespeare.

Nothing so much convinces me of the boundlessness of the human mind as its operations in dreaming.

Clulow.

Death Quotes

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Voltaire (1694-1778) French philosopher, author.

The living are the dead in holiday.

Maurice de Maeterlinck ( 1862-1949) Belgian author.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid,
The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Thomas Gray (1716-1771) English Poet.

The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.

Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author.

No motion has she now, no force, She neither hears nor sees; Rolled around in earth’s diurnal course, With rocks and stones, and trees.

William Wordsworth (170-1850) English Poet.

Be the green grass above me with showers and dewdrops wet; And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget.

Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) English Poet, lyricist.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

Montaigne.

Death is as the foreshadowing of life. We die that we may die no more.

Herman Hooker.

This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.

Tryon Edwards.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

W.Mitford

We call it death to leave this world, but where we once out of it, and enstated into the happiness of the next, we should think it were dying indeed to come back to it again.

Sherlock.

Death has nothing terrible which life has not made so. A faithful Christian life in the world is the best preparation for the next.

Tryon Edwards.

The last enemy that shell be destroyed is death.

Saint Paul (3-67) Apostle to the Gentiles.

All man think all men mortal, but themselves.

Edward Young (1683-1765) English Poet, playwright.

Teach me to live that I may dread The grave as little as my bed.

Thomas Ken (1637-1711) English churchman, hyman writer.

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.

Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramee) (1839-1908) English novelist.

It is natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Englsih philosopher, essayist.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

Swift.

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.

Mad. De. Stael.

Death is like thunder in two particulars: we are alarmed at the sound of it, and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.

Colton.

Death, to a good man, is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his father’s house, into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.

Clarke.

Death is not, to the Christian, what it has often been called, “Paying the debt of nature”. No, it is not paying a dept; it is rather like bringing a note to a bank to obtain solid gold in exchange for it. You bring a cumbrous body which is nothing worth, and which you could not wish to retain long; you lay it down, and receive for it, from the eternal treasure, liberty, victory, knowledge, and rapture.

John Foster.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan.

One may live as a conqueror, a king or a magistrate; but he must die a man. The bed of death brings every human being to his pure individuality, to the intense contemplation of that deepest and most solemn of all relations the relation between the creature and his Creator.

Daniel Webster.

If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain him; if as an enemy, prepare to overcome him. Death has no advantage except when he comes as a stranger.

Quarles.

Dancing Quotes

Dancing with abandon, turning a tango into a fertility rite
Marshall Pugh (b.1925) British journalist, author.

I just put my feet in the air and move them around.
Fred Astaire (1899-1987) American dancer.

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.
Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) English statesman, man of letters to his son.

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it’s the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
Christopher Morley (1890-1957) American novelist, journalist.

These sort of boobies think that people come to balls to do nothing but dance; whereas everyone knows that the real business of balls is either to look out for a wife, to look after a wife, or to look after somebody else’s wife.
R.S. Surtees (1803-1865) English novelist.

How inimita by graceful children are in general – before they learn to dance.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English Poet.

The greater the fool the better the dancer.
Theodore Hook (1788-1841) English novelist, wit.

The body never lies.
Martha Graham ( b.1894) American dancer, choreographer.

Ballet is the ectoplasm of music.
Russell Green.

The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc, steels and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.
Richter.

Those move easiest, who have learned to dance.
Pope.

A merry, dancing, drinking, laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.
Dryden.

A sense of the graceful is one of the higher faculties of our nature.
Channing.

The chief benefit of dancing is to learn one how to sit still.
Johnson.

Learn to dance, not so much for the sake to dancing, as for coming into a room and presenting yourself genteelly and gracefully. Women, whom you ought to endeavor to please, cannot forgive a vulgar and awkward air and gestures.
Chesterfield.

In ancient times dancing as a religious service, was before and to the Lord; in modern days it is too often a dissipating amusement for and to the devil.

A ballroom is nothing more or less than a great market place of beauty. For my part, were I a buyer, I should like making my purchases in a less public mart.
Bulwer.

You may be invited to a ball or dinner because you dance or tell a good story, but no one since the time of Queen Elizabeth has been made a cabinet minister or a lord chancellor for such reasons.
E.Pierrepont.

Well was it said, by a man of sagacity, that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way to be convinced of this was to close the ears and judge of it by the eyes alone.
Gotthold.

For children and youth, dancing in the parlor or on the green may be a very pleasant and healthful amusement, but when we see older people dancing, we are ready to ask with the Chinese, “Why don’t you have your servants do it for you?”

All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.
Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Where wildness and disorder are visible in the dance, there Satan, death, and all kinds of mischief are likewise on the floor.
Gotthold.

Crime Quotes

Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it.
Henry fielding (1707-1754) English novelist, dramatist.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.
George Farquhar (1678-1707) Irish dramatist.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendour, number, and excess.
Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French writer, satirist.

Successful crimes alone are justified.
John Dryden (1631-1700) English Poet, dramatist.

He threatens many that hath injured one.
Ben Jonson (1573-1637) English dramatist, poet.

Abscond. To “move” in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author.

The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is God’s message to him. Let him try and be a good thief.
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English author.

A thief believes everybody steals.
Ed (E.W.) Howe (1853-1937) American journalist, novelist.

A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
O.Henry (1862-1910) American short story writer.

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
Jean Genet (1910-1986) French dramatist.

Far more university graduates are becoming criminals every year than are becoming police men.
Philip Goodheart (b. 1925) British Conservative politician.

When rich villains have need of poor villains, poor ones may make what price they will.

If weakness may excuse, what murder, what traitor, parricide, incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness.
John Milton (16081674) English Poet.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

Heaven will permit no man to crime heaven finds a witness.
Bulwer.

Of all the adult male criminals in London, not two in a hundred have entered upon a course of crime who have lived an honest life up to the age of twenty. Almost all who enter on a course of crime do so between the ages of eight and sixteen.
Shaftesbury.

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
Hare.

Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.
Racine.

Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
Voltaire.

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are gather corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.
Napoleon.

Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes, are ever backward to suspect others.
Rochefoucauld.

It is supposable that in the eyes of angels, a struggle down a dark lane and a battle of Leipsic differ in nothing but in degree of wickedness.
Willmott.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.
Emerson.

If poverty is the mother of crimes, want of sense is the father of them.
Bruyere.

Children Quotes

Youth is a wonderful thing; what a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.
Brian Aldiss (b.1925) British Author.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, dramatist.

Don’t take up man’s time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his.
Ed (E.W.) Howe (1853-1937) American journalist, novelist.


There is little use to talk about your child to anyone; other people either have one or haven’t.
Don Herold (1889-1966) American humorous writer, artist.

The parent who could see his boy as he really is would shake his head and say; “Willy is no good: I will sell him.”
Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) Canadian humorist, economist

There is no sinner like a young saint.
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) English playwright, poet.

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) English poet.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
Josh Billings ( 1818-1885) American humorist.

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are the mistakes I made that I don’t want my kids to make.
Jane Fonda (b.1937) American film actress.

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
William Penn (1644-1718) religious leader, founder of Pennsylcvania.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, poet, philosopher.

Ignorance is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
George Eliot (1819-1880) English novelist.

Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little, too, sometimes.
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author.

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
Bovee.

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
Milton.

The child is father of the man.
Wordsworth.

I love these little people; and It is not a light thing, when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.
Dickens.

The clew of our destiny, wander where we will, lies at the foot of the cradle.
Richter.

The interests of childhood and youth are the interests of mankind.
Janes.

Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow. The wholesome warmth necessary to make the heart blood circulate healthily and freely; unhappiness the chilling pressure which produces here an inflammation, there an excrescence, and, worst of all. “the mind’s green and yellow sickness” – ill temper.
Bray.

Children have more need of models than of critics.
Joubert.

Beware of fatiguing them by ill judged exactness. If virtue offers itself to the child under a melancholy and constrained aspect, while liberty and license present themselves under an agreeable form, all is lost, and your labor is in vain.
Fenelon.

Children sweeten labors, but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death.
Bacon.

In bringing up a child, think of its old age.
Joubert.

Some one says, :Boys will be boys”. He forgot to add, “Boys will be men.”

Business Quotes

Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash.
Walter Sickert (1860-1942) British artist

Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
R.G. Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another… is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
Adam Smith (1723-1790) Scottish economist.

Everyone lives by selling something.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish author.

If I see something I like, I buy it; then I try to sell it.
Lord Grade (b.1906) British film and TV entrepreneur.

The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American President.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, writer.

What’s good for the country is good foe General Mothers’ and what’s good for General Motors is good for the country.
Charles Wilson (1890-1961) American industrialist, Secretary of Defense.

Free enterprise ended in the United Stated a good many years ago. Big oil, big agriculture avoid the open marketplace. Big corporations fix prices among themselves and drive out the small entrepreneur. In their conglomerate forms, the huge corporations have begin to challenge the legitimacy of the state.
Gore Vidal (b.1925) American novelist.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) French poet.

An excellent monument might be erected to the Unknown stockholder. It might take the form of a solid stone ark of faith apparently floating in a pool of water.
Felix Riesenberg.

Business may not be the noblest pursuit, but it is true that men are bringing to it some of the qualities which actuate the explorer, scientist, artist: the zest, the open mindedness, even the disinterestedness, with which the scientific investigator explores some field of pure research.
Earnest Elmo Calkins.

After all, what the worker does is buy back from those who finance him the goods that he himself produces. Pay him a wage that enables him to buy, and you fill your market with ready consumers.
James J.Davies.

We demand that big business give people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right, he shall himself be given a square deal.
Drew

The man who is above his business may one day find his business above him.
Drew.

Not because of any extraordinary talents did he succeeded, but because he had a capacity on a level for business and not above it.
Tacitus.

To business that we love, we rise betimes, and go to it with delight.
Shakespeare.

Business without profit is not business and more than a pickle is candy.
Charles F.Abbott.

Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.
Owen D.Young.

The art of winning in business is in working hard not taking thing too seriously.
Elbert Hubbard.

To manage a business successfully requires as much courage as that possessed by the soldier who goes to war. Business courage is the more natural because all the benefits which the public has in material wealth come from it.
Charles F.Abbott.

The way to stop financial “joy-riding” is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
Woodrow Wilson.

The manufacturer who waits in the woods for the world to beat a path to his door, is a great optimist. But the manufacturer who shows his “mousetraps” to the world keeps the smoke coming out of his chimney.
O.B.Winters.

Boys Quotes

I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.
Mr.Grimwig, Oliver Twist Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English novelist.

I have seen thousands of boys and young men, narrow chested, hunched-up, miserable specimens, smoking endless cigarettes, many of them betting.

The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author.

All my life I have loved a womanly woman and admired a manly man, but I never could stand a boily boy.
Lord Rosebery (1847-1929) British Liberal Politician, Prime minister.

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
Charles Lamb (1775-1834) English essayist, critic.

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle aged men.

God bless all little boys who look like Puck,
With wide eyes, wider months and stickout ears,
Rash little boys who stay alive by luck
And heaven’s favor in this world of tears.
Arthur Guiterman, Blessing of Little Boys.

The boy stood on the burning deck.
Whence all but him had field;
The fiame that lit the battle’s wreck
Shone round him O’er the dead.
Felicia D.Hemans, Casabianca.

I remember, I remember
The fir trees dark and high;
I used to think their slender tops
Were close against the sky;
It was a childish ignorance,
But now ‘tis little Joy
To know I’m farther of? From heaven
Than when I was a boy.


Across the fields of yesterday
He sometimes comes to me,
A little lad just back from play
The lad I used to be.


When I was a beggarly boy,
And lived in a cellar damp
I had not a friend nor a toy.
But I had Aladdin’s lamp.

The smiles and tears of boyhood’s years. The words of love then spoken.

When that I was a little tiny boy,
With hey, ho, wind the rain;
A foolish thing was but a toy,
For the rain it raineth every day.

Blessings on thee, little man,
Barefoot boy. With cheek of tani
With thy turned-up pantaloons,
And thy merry whistled tunes.

Beauty Quotes

O beauty, so ancient and so new!
Saint Augustine (354-430) theologian

The ideal has many names, and Beauty is but one of them.
W.Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) British author.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Irish Philosopher, statesman

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Saint Augustine (354-430) theologian.

Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author.

To me, fair friend, you never can be old For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet.

The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring.
Ambrose Philips (1674-1749) English poet, politician.

If beauty isn’t genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.
Peter York (b.1950) British journalist.

The fountain of beauty is the heart, and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

If virtue accompanies beauty it is the heart’s paradise; if vice be associate with it, it is the soul’s purgatory. It is the wise man’s bonfire, and the fool’s furnace.
Quarles.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
Bacon.

Beauty hath so many charms one knows not how to speak against it; and when a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul. When the beauty of the face speaks out the modest and humility of the mind, it raises our thoughts up to the great Creator; but after all, beauty, like truth, is never so glorious as when it goes the plainest.
Sterne.

The beauty seen, is partly in him who see it.
Bovee.

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a women of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
Washington Irving.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Even virtue is more fair when it appears in a beautiful person.
Virgil.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
Bancroft.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.
Ninon de I’ Enclos.

If either man or woman would realize the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purpose; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding the capacities of the soul, gives expansion and symmetry to the body which contains it.
Upham.

Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism.
St.Pierre.

To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.
Bovee.

No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.
Channing.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Steele.

If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little shorter, it would have changed the history of the world.
Pascal.

Bachelors Quotes

It is truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen (1775-1817) English novelist.

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy for ever.
Helen Rowland (1875-1950) American journalist.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist.

I have no wife or children, good or bad, to provide for; a mere spectator of other men’s fortunes and adventures, and how they play their parts; which, methinks, are diversely presented unto me, as from a common theatre or scene.
Burton.

Because I will not do the wrong to mistrust any, I will do myself the right to trust none; I will live a bachelor.
Shakespeare.

A man unattached, and without a wife, if he have any genius at all, may raise himself above his original position, may mingle with the world of fashion, and hold himself on a level with the highest; but this is less easy for him who is engaged. It seems as if marriage put the whole world in their proper rank.
Bruyere.

A bachelor’s life is a splendid breakfast; a tolerably flat dinner; and a most miserable supper.

Babies Quotes

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Father Ronald Knox (1888-1957) British clergyman, writer.

Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
Charles Dickness (1812-1870) English novelist.

Babies are the enemies of the human race.
Isaac Asimov (b.1920) American author.

Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new born child?
Mrs. Norton.

A babe in the house is a well spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angles and men.
Tupper.

A sweet new blossom of humanity, fresh fallen from God’s own home, to flower on earth.
Massey.

Some wonder that children should be given to young mothers. But what instructions does the babe bring to the mother! She learns patience, self-control, endurance; her very arm grows strong so that she holds the dear burden longer than the father can.
T.W. Higginson.

Living jewels, dropped unstained from heaven.
Pollock.

A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.
Byron.

The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby’s birth. Every stroke he strikes is for his child. New social aims, and new moral motives come vaguely up to him.
T.W. Higginson.

Where did you come from, baby dear?
Out of the Everywhere into the here…
George Macdonald, At the back of the North Wind.

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength.
Old Testament, Psalms, VIII,2

Good Christian people, here is for you an inestimable loan. Take all head thereof, and in all carefulness employ it. With high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.
Carlyle.

Could we understand half what mothers say and do to us when infants, we should be filled with such conceit of our own importance as would make us insupportable through life. Happy the child whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
Hare.

They always talk who never think.
Prior.

Fire and sword are but slow engines of destruction in comparison with the babbler.
Steele.

Talkers are no good does, be assured. We go to use our hands and not our tongues.
Shakespeare.

Argument Quotes

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.

Swift.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

Herbert.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

Prior.

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.

Anacharsis.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.

Montaigne.

Nothing is more certain than that much of the force as well as grace of arguments, as well as of instructions, depends on their conciseness.

Pope.

When a man argues for victory and not for truth, he is sure of just one ally, that is the devil. Not the defeat of the intellect, bu the acceptance of the heart is theonly true object in fighting with the sword of the spirit.

G.Macdonald.

Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

Colton.

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

Tryon Edwards.

Clear statement is argument.

W.G.T.Shedd.

If I were to deliver up my whole self to the arbitrament of special pleaders, to-day I might be argued into an atheist, and to-morrow into a pickpocket.

Bulwer.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most unsubstantial; it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword.

Whately.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

Colton.

An ill argument introduced with deference will procure more credit than the profoundest science with a rough, insolent, and noisy management.

Locke.

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

Landor.

Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy; calmness is a great advantage.

Herbert.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher.

You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.

Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

John, Lord Morley ( 1838-1923) English writer, Liberal politician.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author.

To gain one’s way is no escape from the responsibility for an inferior solution.

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British Statesman, writer.

Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into disputation, except lawyers, university men, and men of all sorts that have been bred at Edinburgh.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, writer.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

Applause Quotes

They named it Ovation from the Latin ovis, a sheep.

Plutarch (46-120) Greek essayist, biographer.

I want to tank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.

Henry Kissinger (b.1923) American advisor on international affairs.

Do not trust to the cheering, for those very persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.

Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) Lord Preotector of England.

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, poet, philosopher.

Applause is the spur of noble minds; the end and aim of weak ones.

Colton.

Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the test of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.

Whately.

When the million applaud you, seriously ask what harm you have done; when they censure you, what good!.

Colton.

Applause waits on success. The fickle multitude, like the light straw that floats on the stream, glide with the current still, and follow fortune.

Franklin.

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the Virtuous.

Bacon.

A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.

H.More.

O popular applause! What heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms!

Cowper.

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follows them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it,.

Colton.

Man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and next to escape the censures of the world. If the last interface with the first it should be entirely neglected. But if not, there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind than to see its own approbation seconded by the applause of the public.

Addison.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

Thackeray.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

Mad Neckar.

You may fail to shine in the opinion of others, both in your conversation and actions, from being superior, as well as inferior, to them.

Greville.

We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not to have his work despised in his presence. Now god is present everywhere, and every person is his work.

De Sales.

Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than the merit; but posterity will regard the merit rather than the man.

Cotton.

We should allow other’s excellencies, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.

Barrow.

Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

Tryon Edwards.

One of the Godlike things of this world is the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men.

Carlyle.

When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.

Joubert.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

George Eliot.

Appearance Quotes

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) British author.

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author.

I’m not a dictator. It’s just that I have a grumpy face.
General Pinochet (b.1915) President of Chile.

Straight trees have crooked roots.
16th Century Proverb.

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the façade of his appearance.
Iris Murdoch (b.1919) Anglo-Irish writer.

He looked as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) American writer.

She got her good looks from her father – he’s a plastic surgeon.
Groucho Marx (1895-1977) American comic actor.

There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
Seneca.

Do not judge from mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
E.H.Chapin.

Foolish men mistake transitory semblances for eternal fact, and go astray more and more.
Carlyle.

Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.
E.R.Beadle.

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
Southey.

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
Bruyere.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
La Fontaine.

The world is governed more by appearances than by realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Daniel Webster.

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be.
Socrates.

Animal Quotes

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn’t in us. It’s almost as if we are put here on earth to show how silly they aren’t.
Russell Hiban (b.1925) British author.

I know two things about the horse, And one of them is rather coarse.
Anonymous.

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This ,however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) English born Canadian economist and humorist.

To confess that you are totally Ignorant about the Horse, is social suicide: you will be despised by everybody, especially the horse.
W.C. Sellar (1898-1951) British humorous writer.

Nowadays we don’t think much of a man’s love for an animal; we laugh at people who are attached to cats. But if we stop loving aniamals, aren’t we bound to stop loving humans too?
Alexander Solzhnitsyn (1918) Soviet novelist.

There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they known nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.
Voltaire (Francois – Marie Arouet; 1694-1778) French writer.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self contained.
Walt Whitman, Song of Myself.

They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago.
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) American poet.

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
John Berger (b.1926) British critic.

Of all God’s creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author.

The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals. Yet nowhere in a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
John Berger (b.1926) British critic.

Advice Quotes

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 (1818-1885) American Huorist.

I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to heat the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American writer.

The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as list of the hundred best books.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) American writer, physician.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody’s torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) English Statesman, man of Letters.

The only thing one can do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author.

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Ed (E.W) Howe (1853-1937) American journalist, novelist.

To ask advice is to tout for flattery.
J.Churton Collins (1848-1908) English author, critic, scholar Consult.

To seek another’s approval of a course already decided on.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Aesop (6th century BC) Greek fabulist, slave

One day I sat thinking, almost in despair; a hand fell on my shoulder and a voice said reassuringly; “Cheer up. Things could get worse.” So I cheered up and, sure enough, things got worse.
James Hagerty (1909-1981) President Eisenhower’s Press Secretary.

I’m not a teacher; only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you.

When a man seeks your advice he generally wants your praise.
Chesterfield.

Many a man wins glory for prudence by seeking advice, then seeking advice as to what advice would be best to take, and finally following appetite.
Austin O’Malley.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
Bacon.

When a man has been guilty of any vice of folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.
Addison.

It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Shakespeare

He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the heights of the superior understanding he unites with.
Burke.

It is easy when are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

The worst men often give the best advice.
Bailey

Advice is like snow: the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Coleridge.

Let no man value at a little price a virtuous woman’s counsel.
G.Chapma.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
Rochefoucauld.

To accept good advice is but to increase one’s own ability.
Goethe.

Good counsels observed and chains of grace.
Fuller.

Wait for the season when to cast good counsels upon subsiding passion.
Shakespeare.

Age Quotes

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment
Henry grattan (1746-1820) Irish Politician

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author.

If youth but knew; if age but could.
Henri Estienne(1531-1598) French scholar, publisher

What youth deemed crystal, age finds out was dew.
Robert Browning (1812-1889) English Poet

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic

I’m 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, But if there were fifteen 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 twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
James Thurber (1894-1961) American humorist, Illustration.

What’s a man’s age? He must hurry more, that’s all; Cram in a day what his youth took a year to hold.
Robert Browning (1812-1889) English Poet.

A man’s as old as he’s feeling, a woman as old as she looks.
Mortimer Collins (1827-1876) English novelist, poet

When a woman tells your age it’s all right to look surprised, but don’t scowl.
Wilson Mizner (1876-1933) American dramatist, wit

A lady of a “certain age” which means Certainly aged.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) English Poet.

The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to the ages of other women.
Diane de Poitiers (1499-1566) mistress of Henri II of France, patron.

When women pass thirty, they first forget their age; when forty, they forget that they ever remembered it.
Ninon de Lenclos (1620-1705) French society lady, wit.

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has injured you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.
Ambrose Bierce (1824-1914) American author.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
Bulwer.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
Pindar.

How beautiful can time with goodness make an old man look.
Jerrold.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
J.P. Senn.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon treatment and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
Tryon Edwards.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called old for the first time.
O.W. Holmes.

The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too; and as it is the unfittest time to learn in, so the unfitness of I t to unlearn will be found much greater.
South.

Let us respect gray hairs, especially our own.
J.P.Senn

Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
Pliny.

When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
Pope.

Old men’s eyes are like old men’s memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.
George Eliot.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Swift.

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry out age along with us.
Hazlitt.

Years do not make sages; they only make old men.
Mad. Swetchine.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
Swift.