Quotes by American Authors - Page 211

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
To keep the heart unwrinkled to be hopeful kindly cheerful reverent -that is to triumph over old age.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.
T.S Eliot
If I'd known I was gonna live this long (100 years) I'd have taken better care of myself.
James Hubert Blake
I am just turning 40 and taking my time about it.
Harold Lloyd
I am 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were 15 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 12 years between the ages of 28 and 40.
James Thurber
An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
All would live long but none would be old.
Benjamin Franklin
All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so would I?
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: "The work is done."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
At 20 years of age the will reigns at 30 the wit at 40 the judgment.
Benjamin Franklin
Be still sad heart and cease repining Behind the clouds the sun is shining Thy fate is the common fate of all Into each life some rain must fall - Some days must be dark and dreary.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Simplicity simplicity simplicity. I say let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen and keep your accounts on your thumbnail.
Henry David Thoreau
Don't fight forces use them.
Buckminster Fuller
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
Put all thine eggs in one basket and - watch that basket.
Mark Twain
The true secret of giving advice is after you have honestly given it to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right.
Hannah Whitall Smith
I remember my father telling me the story of the preacher delivering an exhortation to his flock and as he reached the climax of his exhortation a man in the front row got up and said 'O Lord use me. Use me O Lord - in an advisory capacity!'
Adlai Stevenson
The proverb warns that "You should not bite the hand that feeds you." But maybe you should if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
Thomas Szasz
Thanksgiving comes after Christmas.
Peter Kreeft
No man ever listened himself out of a job.
Calvin Coolidge
Advertisements contain the only truth to be relied on in a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson
Advertising is what you do when you can't go to see somebody. That's all it is.
Fairfax Cone
The art of publicity is a black art.
Learned Hand
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
J. K. Galbraith
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
Abraham Lincoln
The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be seduced.
Daniel J. Boorstin
If I were starting life over again I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half-century would have been impossible without that spreading of the knowledge of higher standards by means of advertising.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Buy me and you will overcome the anxieties I have just reminded you of.
Michael Schudson
Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
Jerry Delia Femina
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.
William Feather
The best ad is a good product.
Alan H. Meyer
In advertising not to be different is virtually suicidal.
Bill Bernback
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
Henry Ward Beecher
Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Walter Colton
Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us.
Mary Baker Eddy
He who serves God with what costs him nothing will do very little service you may depend on it.
Susan Warner
Often God has to shut a door in our face so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go.
Catharine Marshall
Hope begins in the dark the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
Anne Lamott
Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
If we had no winter the spring would not be so pleasant if we did not sometimes taste of adversity prosperity would not be so welcome.
Anne Bradstreet
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life can be real tough ... you can either learn from your problems or keep repeating them over and over.
Marie Osmond
Those things that hurt instruct.
Benjamin Franklin
I have always grown from my problems and challenges from the things that don't work out. That's when I've really learned.
Carol Burnett
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
George Santayana
Pain indolence sterility endless ennui have also their lesson for you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We only think when we are confronted with a problem.
John Dewey
Every experience however bitter has its lesson and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.
Edward Howard Griggs
When a man is pushed tormented defeated he has a chance to learn something he has been put on his wits ... he has gained facts learned his ignorance is cured of the insanity of conceit has got moderation and real skill.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.
Christy Mathewson
Forget the times of your distress but never forget what they taught you.
Herbert Gasser
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
A woman is like a tea bag: you never know her strength until you drop her in hot water.
Nancy Reagan
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch what make you go beyond the norm.
Cicely Tyson
Who hath not known ill fortune never knew himself or his own virtue.
David Mallett
This struggle of people against their conditions this is where you find the meaning in life.
Rose Chernin
I thank God for my handicaps for through them I have found myself my work and my God.
Helen Keller
I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.
J. C. Penney