Age Quotes - Page 84

Human beings invent just as many ways to sabotage their lives as to improve them.

All those "and they lived happily ever after" fairy tale endings need to be changed to "and they began the very hard work of making their marriages happy."

An automobile goes nowhere efficiently unless it has a quick, hot spark to ignite things, to set the cogs of the machine in motion. So I try to make every player on my team feel he's the spark keeping our machine in motion.

Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.

Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.

Something happens when your subconscious goes to work... That's why 'Sleep on it' is an adage.

I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.

All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.

A good husband makes a good wife.

Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but the chain they wove to bind these States together was one of love and mutual good offices.

The pleasure of the table belongs to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries, and to all areas; it mingles with all other pleasures, and remains at last to console us for their departure.

A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization presented with the alternative of love or a garbage disposal unit, young people of all countries have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

My agent had told me that he was going to make me the Janet Gaynor of England—I was going to play all the sweet roles. Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.

The whole business of marshaling ones energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.

Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage , he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.

A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by how close it gets.

You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God.

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

If you are poor, live wisely. If you have riches, live wisely. It is not your station in life but your heart that brings blessings.

The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.

Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course superior intelligence, such as yours and mine, is an advantage.