Don’t ever think the poetry is dead in an old man because his forehead is wrinkled, or that his manhood has left him when his hand trembles! If they ever were there, they are there still. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: poetry age joy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I was young, I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. —W. Somerset Maugham More about this quote Tags: learning curiousity age youth Greek ambition Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I had known when I was twenty-one that I should be as happy as I am now, I should have been sincerely shocked. They promised me wormwood and the funeral raven. —Christopher Isherwood More about this quote Tags: age youth death shock Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age. —Margaret Atwood More about this quote Tags: wisdom silence age frivolity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Youth has to do with spirit, not age. Men of seventy or sixty are often more youthful than the young. Theirs is the real youth. —Henry Miller More about this quote Tags: age youth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high-school class is running the country. —Kurt Vonnegut More about this quote Tags: fear power humor leadership terror peers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute? —Annie Dillard More about this quote Tags: God religion church Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself. —Richard Burton More about this quote Tags: humanity religion ego self-regard Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are some forms of religion that are bad; just as there’s bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too. —Karen Armstrong More about this quote Tags: religion bad good Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that. —Joseph Campbell More about this quote Tags: understanding God religion thought Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Poverty is not wholly a personal failure. It also represents the failure of an economic system. And the remedy is not wholly one of charity, but of political and economic action. Poverty is a reflection also on those who are not poor. —Brooks Atkinson More about this quote Tags: politics failure poverty social responsibility economics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any. —Katharine Whitehorn More about this quote Tags: children money poverty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. —Douglas Adams More about this quote Tags: humanity humor happiness money Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our dangerous class is not at the bottom; it is near the top of society. Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law. —Henry Ward Beecher More about this quote Tags: law rich poor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy. —Spike Milligan More about this quote Tags: humor happiness money Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email