Society...Life...AGE
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1427 A
“I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.” — Cardinal Harold Samuel Kushner
AGE, Experience, Thought, Perception
1428 P
“The years teach us much the days never knew.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
AGE, Experience
1429
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
AGE, Experience, Change, Thought
1430 P
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” — Soren Kierkegaard
AGE, Thought
1431
“Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceives us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.”
— Ovid
AGE, Personal Management, Procrastination
1432
“No wise man ever wished to be younger.” — Jonathan Swift
AGE, Wisdom
1433 H
“The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.” — Oscar Wilde
AGE, Perception
1434 P
“Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.” — George Chapman
AGE, Perception
1435
“Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do.”
— French Proverb
AGE, Procrastination, Ignorance
1436 P
“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.” — Victor (Marie) Hugo
AGE, Death
1437 HA
“Fun is like [life] insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.”
— Frank McKinney Hubbard
AGE, Happiness
1438 H
“I’ve never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.”
— Josh Billings
AGE, Fame
1439
“Nothing is more dishonorable than an old man, heavy with years, who has no other evidence of his having lived long except his age.”
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
AGE, Potential, Wisdom
1440 PA
“Life is the childhood of our immortality.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
AGE, Happiness, Death
1441 A
“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.” — Danny Kaye
AGE, Happiness, Attitude, Experience
1442
“Maturity means reacquiring the seriousness one had as a child at play.” — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
AGE, Attitude, Change
1443 P
“Sweet childish days that were as long as twenty days are now.”
— William Wordsworth
AGE, Happiness, Haste, Family & Friends
1444
“I remember, I remember,
How my childhood fleeted by.
The mirth of its December,
the warmth of its July.” — W(inthrop) M(ackworth) Praed
AGE, Happiness, Family & Friends
1445 P
“When you return to your boyhood town, you find it wasn’t the town you longed for - it was your
boyhood.” — Earl Wilson
AGE, Perception, Family & Friends
1446
“Hors d’oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me: they remind me of one’s childhood that one goes through, wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d’oeuvres.” — Saki
AGE, Family & Friends, Death
AGE Cross-References
Excellence—66 • Winning—79 •
Optimism—124 • Perseverance—143 • Happiness—242, 245 •
Procrastination—259 • Adversity—295, 298, 306 •
Errors—311 • Haste—359, 363 • Failure—387, 395 •
Attitude—402 • Personal Management—415, 426, 446 •
Potential—486, 490 • Knowledge—569 • Wisdom—581, 584-585 •
Perception—613, 616 • Thought—626-627 • Chance—669 •
Love—770 • Faith—1012 • Goodness—1038 •
Government—1259 • Death—1471, 1473-1474
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