Quotes by Authors - Page 126

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The middle years caught between children and parents free of neither: the past stretches back too densely it is too thickly populated the future has not yet thinned out.
Margaret Drabble
Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
Phyllis Diller
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Lydia M. Child
Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.
Lillian Carter
A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.
Rachel Carson
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
Natalie Clifford Barney
Oh I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought.
Johanna Spyri
Not all speed is movement.
Toni Cade
Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.
John Oliver Hobbes
I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once when I was on the bestseller list I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.
Jacqueline Briskin
If I had my life to live over I wish I could be a great pianist or something.
Woody Allen
There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline in some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances.
Bonnie Blair
There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish though he be king or pope.
Thomas à Kempis
You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are.
B.C. Forbes
Nobody's problem is ideal. Nobody has things just as he would like them.
Dr. Frank Crane
What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.
Anonymous
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
Foe Ancis
Happiness grows at our firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas Jerrold
He who leaves his house in search of happiness pursues a shadow.
Anonymous
Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of the door.
Charlton Ogburn
To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.
Oscar Wilde
Acorns were good till bread was found.
Anonymous
Happiness is ... usually attributed by adults to children and by children to adults.
Thomas Szasz
The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest.
Anonymous
Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered "Somebody else's."
Michel de Montaigne
When you don't have any money the problem is food. When you have money it's sex. When you have both it's health. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.
J.P. Donleavy
There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.
Lillian Eichler Watson
Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!
Margaret Mitchell
The dream is real my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality.
Toni Cade Bambara
You always admire what you really don't understand.
Eleanor Roosevelt
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
Dean William R. Inge
When people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced and partakes of the nature of a protest.
Eric Hoffer
All cases are unique and very similar to others.
T.S Eliot
What a good thing Adam had - when he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
Mark Twain
Originality is the art of concealing your sources.
Anonymous
Have a place for everything and have everything in its place.
Anonymous
That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life but in a new way.
Doris Lessing
Large organization is loose organization. Nay it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
G.K. Chesterton
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order method and discipline.
Michel de Montaigne
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.
Winston Churchill
It is much safer to obey than to rule.
Thomas à Kempis
Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.
Frederick Langbridge
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Anonymous
Optimism: A cheerful frame of mind that enables a tea kettle to sing though in hot water up to its nose.
Anonymous
Still round the corner there may wait a new road or a secret gate.
J.R.R. Tolkien
The optimist claims we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell
When things come to the worst they generally mend.
Susanna Moodie
Pessimist - one who when he has the choice of two evils chooses both.
Oscar Wilde
To look up and not down To look forward and not back To look out and not in and To lend a hand.
Edward Everett Hale
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Don Marquis
When I look in the glass I see that every line in my face means pessimism but in spite of my face - that is my experience - I remain an optimist.
Richard Jeffries
One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.
Thomas Fuller
In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
If you want greater prosperity in your life start forming a vacuum to receive it.
Catherine Ponder
I always keep myself in a position of being a student.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
B.C. Forbes
The best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.
Ruth Gordon
We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity.
Walter E. Cole
What the student calls a tragedy the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach