Thomas Bailey Aldrich Famous Quotes
"To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am."
"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age."
Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotations
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
Abba Eban
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
Walter Bagehot
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
Marya Mannes
"Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest."
Bion
"Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary."
Peter Minard
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
Seneca
The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.
Rosalyn S Yalow
"We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language."
Oscar Wilde
"I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses I have been versed in the reasonings of men but Fate is stronger than anything I have known."
Euripides