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
And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again. . . . Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn’t have to anymore. —Anne Lamott More about this quote Tags: heart sorrow grief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? —John Keats More about this quote Tags: intelligence soul troubles pain Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: trouble concern troubles Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email