Just do what you do best. When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, I can't. I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I can ... Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education wit ... Ability without honor is useless. I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than ... Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imaginatio ... To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering. Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in ... The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. A short absence is the safest. Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a ... Never find fault with the absent. Absence and a friendly neighbor washes away love. Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn ... How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings ... Parting is such sweet sorrow. When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of ... Greater things are believed of those who are absent. Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity. With renunciation life begins. Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up. Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature . Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly. All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket. Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one. The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor. Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity. Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spit ... At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we lau ... Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look b ... The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and t ... In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or th ... The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their domini ... A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. [Luke 12:15] Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into. Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not ... You can never get enough of what you don't want. Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little. He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without. Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. In my hut this spring, there is nothing -- there is everything! Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience atta ... People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast ... A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a hor ... The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt. It's not a slam at you when people are rude -- it's a slam at the people they've met before. I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike -- and I don't think there really ... There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad. If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on ... A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Pr ... Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes t ... In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which ... To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive o ... The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the co ... Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My a ... Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield ... The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not vio ... We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad pe ... The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he ... Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestionin ... Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the ... For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or ... Happiness can exist only in acceptance. The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is alwa ... In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showi ... What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise. There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture ... I bring to my life a certain amount of mess. If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood ru ... In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. A wounded deer leaps the highest. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an ... Gray skies are just clouds passing over. Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and ... Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine A man is a god in ruins. To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows t ... He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for th ... Failure is success if we learn from it. When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they ... Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may pr ... Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard ... He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mys ... Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we ... I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, roma ... What is to give light must endure the burning. The proof of gold is fire... Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward. Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you. One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night. March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorn ... Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great acc ... The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them. We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds. Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, ... Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones th ... Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with s ... Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains ... The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places. It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish. Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater bene ... In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win. Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome advers ... Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this. The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses. As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it. Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fort ... Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dor ... The harder you fall, the higher you bounce. Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him. Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of ... I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He ... Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that ... Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially ... Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to brea ... He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive s ... We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overc ... Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defe ... Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it ... As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth hi ... Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is. Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you have ... Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the co ... The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but wher ... Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer. There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat. Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The be ... It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of o ... Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the han ... God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the c ... Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when th ... You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut. Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious sh ... There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed ... You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home. Only entropy comes easy. A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger. The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire. Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pr ... I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by refl ... They sicken at the calm that know the storm. Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so r ... Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly ret ... I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard ... The racism, the sexism, I never let it be my problem, it's their problem. If I see a door comin' my ... That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill u ... Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great. Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly. The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to w ... The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the sheph ... A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. A stumble may prevent a fall. A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us. Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. Stumbling is not falling. Any port in a storm. Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passe ... All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensi ... Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit ... Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him. I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through an ... If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, g ... In a dark time, the eye begins to see. Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best o ... People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the d ... To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need ... Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often th ... When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity. When it gets dark enough you can see the stars. Trouble shared is trouble halved. It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; t ... You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome --to be got over. Tough times never last, but tough people do. Every burden is a blessing. The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is. One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome advers ... The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in ... Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer. It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapid ... No untroubled day has ever dawned for me. The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to ... Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. Things were bad but now they are OK. One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment. Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all. Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ... If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk. For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps t ... Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake. Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us cele ... We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealt ... Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly mis ... Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my su ... Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow. By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours. The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up. There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth. There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when thin ... Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm. The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me. When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own. We need tough days to drive us to our knees. We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that w ... Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and ... Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it. If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it. He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light. Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together. If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand tha ... If your knees are knocking, kneel on them. If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance. In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed. No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is ne ... I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up. Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these. I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time. Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records. Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it. Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train ma ... Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions. The path of least resistance is the path of the loser. A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe. If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me ... It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one ... Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to kno ... One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than whe ... Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful. Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together. Advertising is the principal reason why the business person has come to inherit the earth. An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things. Advertising is the very essence of democracy. Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effectiv ... Telling lies does not work in advertising. In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide. We read advertisements to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready -- even eager -- to ... If you are writing about baloney, don't try and make it Cornish hen, because that's the worst kind o ... I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good on ... Make it simple. 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No agency is better than its account executives. The headline is the most important element of an ad. It must offer a promise to the reader of a beli ... Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families. The right name is an advertisement in itself. I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to ma ... The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. B ... Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising. Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get m ... If you don't believe in your product, of if you're not consistent and regular in the way you promote ... In order to sell a product or a service, a company must establish a relationship with the consumer. ... 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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without ad ... However far your travels take you, you will never find the girl who smiles out at you from the trave ... Advertising is legalized lying. Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams -- Joseph interpreting for Pharaoh. Like the movies, ... Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for ... It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. Be smart, be intelligent and be informed. We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman ... To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, ... He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with ... The worst men often give the best advice. Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one. Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety. [Proverbs ... A fool think he needs no advice, but a wise man listens to others. [Proverbs 12:15] Consult. To seek another's approval of a course already decided on. Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take. Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corr ... The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases ... Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether. Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel. Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least. In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torm ... I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and do ... In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice. Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the ... To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor. We ask advice but we mean approbation. A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice. There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad. I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved ... Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it. They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the ... When in doubt, don't. When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies. When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do ... Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea o ... Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. ... The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment. We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice. The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best book ... Whatever advice you give, be short. A good scare is worth more than good advice. Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, p ... No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ... The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effront ... Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it. Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them. We may give advice, but not the sense to use it. Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice. The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice. We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. Number one: Don't frisk me. Don't hurt me physically. Don't get anywhere near my neck. And don't cal ... Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can ... It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people. Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the gre ... I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say. Good advice is beyond all price. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. Never give advice in a crowd. If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice ... To advise is not to compel. To advise is easier than to help. Never give advice unless asked. Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, thou ... One can advise comfortably from a safe port. It is easy to give advice from a port of safety. Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in ... Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then ... I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart. I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead -- ahead of mys ... We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do. The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent w ... No one wants advice, only corroboration. These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well ... Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it. It is bad advice that cannot be changed. If one man says to thee, Thou art a donkey, pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle. I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me. I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valu ... Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice A word to the wise is infuriating. Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand. Never play leapfrog with a unicorn. Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others. Anybody who ask for advice nowadays just hasn't been listening. Give help rather than advice. The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. Some of these people need ten years of therapy --ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of the ... Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you a ... Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The ... Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less ... The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own ... Most people would rather give than get affection. In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean a ... Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. [Colossians 3:2] Yes, I do touch. I believe that everyone needs that I love to hold people's hands when I visit hospitals, even though they are shocked because they have ... The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; a ... Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves ... Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through ... A woman's life is a history of the affections. The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen. Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more ... A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection. I never met a man I didn't like. If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper -- and despise i ... A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them ... One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-pla ... I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest. These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind. It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep convic ... You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental p ... Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally ac ... Constant repetition carries conviction. One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be tr ... First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between ... As long as you know what it is you desire, then by simply affirming that it is yours -- firmly and p ... When you affirm your own rightness in the universe, then you co-operate with others easily and autom ... We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the su ... You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. Thi ... Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application -- practice. What you prac ... You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be. Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites. As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare. Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy. No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to u ... He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he m ... You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older. While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years ma ... The surest sign of age is loneliness. To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old ... Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are. The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old ... To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the ... I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life ... Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of yo ... Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate. Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life. The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as ... Age will not be defied. Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be de ... Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom driv ... Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom dr ... The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. Old age is the verdict of life. I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come ... It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, wher ... We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves. We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals. To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that on ... I hope I never get so old I get religious. Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is bein ... While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things ... With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12] Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no ... I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else. In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep ... The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is ... She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years. Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can. A woman's always younger than a man at equal years. Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made. What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hol ... Grow old with me the best is yet to come. Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked. It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from me ... In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to m ... A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face. Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese. Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere. You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. How can I die? I'm booked. By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it. How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am. Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I ... What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each ... My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or min ... A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged. I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and de ... I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not ... It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. Fro ... A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry ... Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever. It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up ... Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens. Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons. Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are ... The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old ... Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world ... Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives. A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melanchol ... Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief ... The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years. Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human ... An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is ... I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me. We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The ol ... The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish. Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alo ... Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the ro ... There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer. No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year. You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all ... There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1 ... You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of ... One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave. A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks. The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty ... I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent. Age is a matter of feeling, not of years. He is so old that his blood type was discontinued. I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put ... At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still ... The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it! Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. Keep on raging -- to stop the aging. At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragi ... I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists. Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays ... Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking ... The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth. Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret. For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the b ... Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest san ... By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few thi ... It is not how old you are, but how you are old. Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked. Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young ... Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some nev ... Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age. I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am. In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for th ... Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth li ... The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and ye ... I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age ... We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count. Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart ... The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the tim ... If youth knew; if age could. People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't k ... Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell ... One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from b ... A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me. Many foxes grow gray but few grow good. At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life. An old young man, will be a young old man. Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old. An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and ... If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit shoul ... Old age is a shipwreck. Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have ... Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects. The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active. Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is ... It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault commit ... Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Ame ... At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog ... The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for ... Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western w ... The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it ... You're only young once, but you can be immature forever. It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm ... The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is ... A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after ... Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? ... Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stag ... There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy. Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other wo ... Age is not important unless you're a cheese. To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us. The worst old age is that of the mind. As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary. He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be hands ... I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If ... Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to i ... Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from t ... The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the begin ... To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has ha ... Age, like distance lends a double charm. To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time. You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap. Growing old is not growing up. Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies w ... When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which ... Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think ... How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great ... My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still includ ... Wrecked on the lee shore of age. One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memo ... Talking is the disease of age. When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I sho ... At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest. From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life. The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wi ... How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intell ... Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twin ... Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the in ... The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important. For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, ex ... The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination. Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing ever ... Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes ... As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish. Few people know how to be old. Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth. Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad example ... Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad exam ... O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet. Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you k ... The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years. When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex. The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little. The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty y ... One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderl ... He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to dis ... I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become. Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, ... To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind y ... For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilig ... I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, whe ... Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life a ... As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new -- and near the end. The milestones into head ... Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and b ... When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over. Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as e ... Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough. Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long e ... Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty o ... Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the ... When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty ... Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished ... No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of m ... Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation. If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any g ... Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. Being seventy is not a sin. Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught tha ... The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never co ... Don't just count your years, make your years count. How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it. Minds ripen at very different ages. Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous. Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face. Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that mome ... Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose un ... When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory. I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. ... Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone e ... In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their ... The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face. How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell u ... My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chos ... You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think get ... Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and wi ... The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experi ... Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have ... One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understandi ... Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter. How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are. You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them. It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily. In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long. The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. Live your life and forget your age. Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their ta ... Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism. A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, ... Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the ... Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the youn ... It takes a long time to become young. A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an o ... Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have es ... Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there ... Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going. If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done. Old age though despised, is coveted by all. We pay when old for the excesses of youth. The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything ... The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune. An old man loved is winter with flowers. Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying ... Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. Age considers; youth ventures. No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living. Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get. As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly con ... Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everyt ... Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life. Age does not matter if the matter does not age. A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest ex ... I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, ... There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age. Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same for ... Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by a ... The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible. As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradual ... There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his ... Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; ... With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice] Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, ... Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious l ... Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing ... I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which s ... I wasted time, and now time doth waste me. Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying! Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymn ... Thank Heaven! the crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last --, and t ... Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part ... There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; t ... We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as place ... Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. We come and cry and that is life, we cry and go and that is death. If your time ain't come not even a doctor can kill you. Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion. Life is a dream walking death is a going home. Death is a shadow that always follows the body. Death always comes too early or too late. Our last garment is made without pockets. Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box. Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away. There is a remedy for everything; it is called death. A wooden bed is better than a golden coffin. It's astonishing how important a man becomes when he dies. I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played. O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dare ... I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life. So little done, so much to do. The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the d ... Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality. Death is a distant rumor to the young. And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying. Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou ... Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly whe ... You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. [When asked how sh ... Who is mightier than death? Those who can smile when death threatens. I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was ... One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live. To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. Most people would rather die than think: many do. Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once ... When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into wh ... One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe. There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death sup ... What shall he fear that does not fear death. That which is so universal as death must be a benefit. Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little yout ... After your death you will be what you were before your birth. Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last. Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening. Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening. The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dea ... I have a rendezvous with Death at some disputed barricade. A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor. Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the ... I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death. But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed. All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity. After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice d ... I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft int ... Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven. Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it. Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all. The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on natur ... The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. [Hamlet] Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death ... I want to be all used up when I die. Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent. How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep. He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which ... Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted. If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times. Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think t ... The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? On ... For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of ... A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considere ... For the dead there are no more toils. If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death ... When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, an ... In my end is my beginning. It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have ... Authority forgets a dying king. God's finger touched him and he slept. Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies. Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with su ... Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day. Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion. Live your life, do your work, then take your hat. But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, ... Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead. At the moment of death there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of th ... But the peasants -- how do the peasants die? I am ready to meet God face to face tonight and look into those eyes of infinite holiness, for all m ... Death is not a period, but a comma in the story of life. Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end. Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred mi ... Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person invo ... Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to ... We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought de ... We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then ... Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people ... We fear not death. That gloomy night, that pale-faced moon, and the affrighted stars that hurried th ... When death overtakes us; all that we have is left to others; all that we are we take with us. To fear death is to misunderstand life. Those who have lived a good life do not fear death, but meet it calmly, and even long for it in the ... Those to whom we say farewell, are welcomed by others. It was once said that if you took all of the people who fell asleep in church and laid them end to e ... God's retirement plan is out of this world When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did -- in his sleep. Not yelling and screami ... A good man dies when a boy goes wrong. What is here is also there; what is there, is also here. Who sees multiplicity but not the one indiv ... A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, me ... Dear me! I must be turning into a god. I have lived, and I have run the course which fortune allotted me; and now my shade shall descend il ... Death twitches my ear. Live, he says, I am coming. To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth. Every man dies. Not every man really lives. [In the movie Braveheart] Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care ... God buries His workmen but carries on His work. Take care of your of your life and the Lord will take of your death. To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier. Nothing can happen more beautiful than death. Once can survive everything nowadays, except death. Alas, I am dying beyond my means. For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die. I am dying beyond my means. Death is nature's way of saying, Your table's ready. Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not i ... Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death! No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course ... I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the ... In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but world ... Virtue alone has majesty in death. All men think that all men are mortal but themselves. No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil. Books and harlots have their quarrels in public. It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has s ... Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate. Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product. If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep ... A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring. If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cle ... Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisib ... A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself active ... Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscien ... Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so. Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into. Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The h ... Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him. It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one. There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in ... Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest cou ... Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee ... It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the w ... Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt. Debt is the worst poverty. The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s. The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor. A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns yo ... We at Chrysler borrow money the old fashion way. We pay it back. The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and ... Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely e ... When I was born I owed twelve dollars. One day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned by Lutheran Brotherhood and must re negotiate hi ... Money is a poor man's credit card. In the midst of life we are in debt. Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it. To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: S ... Better to go to bed hungry than to wake up in debt. Out of debt, out of danger. Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them. God often pays debts without money. A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy. Pay as you go is the philosopher's stone. You build on cost and you borrow on value. The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole? A man isn't a man until he has to meet a payroll. I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out ... Words pay no debts. He that dies pays all his debts. The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest. You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time. If one wants to get out and stay out of debt he should act his wage. Running into debt isn't so bad. It's running into creditors that hurts. If someone takes your time, it is the only debt that can't be repaid. Birds have bills too, and they keep on singing Buying on the installment plan makes the months shorter and the years longer. Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts ... If you don't have some bad loans you are not in business. The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for s ... Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas. Nowadays people can be divided into three classes -- the haves the have-nots and the have-not-paid-f ... The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury ... Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by ... Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of s ... Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselve ... Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity. Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations ... Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of ... I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to ... There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation. Old age cannot be cured. An epoch or a civilization cannot be prevented from breathing its last. A n ... The easiest person to deceive is one's own self. If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and e ... Deceive the rich and powerful if you will, but don't insult them. You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising budget is big enough. Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it. Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed. Don't overestimate the decency of the human race. We are decent 99 percent of the time, when we could easily be vile. The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and t ... No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as real ... The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others. Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will. Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth. Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. Who had deceived thee so often as thyself? Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves. We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the str ... Life is the art of being well deceived. Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others. The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself. Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving ot ... To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified. I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's ... It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver. The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others. The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot ... We like to be deceived. Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment. Every cloud has a silver lining. To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings. It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the fronts people assume before one another's e ... Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived. For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night. Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the e ... All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falseh ... The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretense ... The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user. A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths. When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers. The art of pleasing is the art of deception. The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief. Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty. When you come to a fork in the road, take it. Where there is no counsel, the people perish; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety. &# ... Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind ... Most of our executives make very sound decisions. The trouble is many of them have turned out not t ... Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course. Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable ... Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk up ... Indecision and delays are the parents of failure. The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in th ... They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluid ... Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness. In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment-independ ... Every decision you make is a mistake. Everything starts with yourself -- with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with y ... Decision making is the specific executive task. Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance. Once -- many, many years ago -- I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I h ... Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made. The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances? ... Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. Business leaders often get credit for the successful decisions that were forced on them. A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself. I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly, if it be wrong leave it undone. Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out. When possible make the decisions now, even if action is in the future. A reviewed decision usually i ... The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision f ... Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing ... Indecision is the seedling of fear. It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do. The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils. A decision without the pressure of consequence is hardly a decision at all. I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose. Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide; In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for ... In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hear ... Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure ... Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim ... Impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. The difference is wide that sheets will not decide. No answer is also an answer. Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision. It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. I also remember the moment my life changed, the moment I finally said, I've had it! I know I'm much ... You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever: the ... You've got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em know when to walk away, know when to run. It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off ... Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real de ... In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the w ... Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different. It is only in our decisions that we are important. The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny. The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you wan ... Making a decision to have a child -- it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go w ... People don't want to know that as a woman, I made my own decision as a woman to leave, It has to be ... The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and dest ... That should be considered long which can be decided but once. Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better tha ... Whenever I make a bum decision, I go out and make another one. If you've made up your mind you can do something, you're absolutely right. If you've made up your mi ... If you're already in a hole, it's no use to continue digging. We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow. When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it does ... Your powers are dead or dedicated. If they are dedicated, they are alive with God and tingle with su ... There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, A ... Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair. I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ. After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and ... In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared ... It is a great deal easier to do that which God gives us to do, no matter how hard it is, than to fac ... God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones. By the grace of God, I'll be that man. The winning team has a dedication. It will have a core of veteran players who set the standards. The ... The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart. I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. Obedience is the fruit of faith. You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed. The concentration and dedication- the intangibles are the deciding factors between who won and who l ... The world has yet to see what God will do with a man who is fully and wholly consecrated to the Holy ... A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; he who plants kindness, gathers l ... What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed -- and not for pay? A ... Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds. Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem. In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress. Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man. Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason. Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice. Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls it ... Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds. A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. We are the children of our own deeds. How ever a brilliant an action, it should not be viewed as great unless it is the result of a great ... The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by acciden ... Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a singl ... Happy is the man whose deeds are greater than his learning Mighty in deeds and not in words. Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil. My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden. Those who shine in the second rank, are eclipsed by the first. Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds. Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no material can produce no combination. Men of real merit, whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge are not yet to be endu ... Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept ... Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task. Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom, his wisdom endures; and everyone whose wisdom is more ... As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and ... If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me go ... Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very ... The man who has accomplished all that he thinks worthwhile has begun to die. Good deeds from good intentions flow; but good intentions only; build for us a place below. O Lord, how many read the Word, and yet from vice are not deterred. The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention That best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of l ... We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong. It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that ... There are important cases in which the difference between half a heart and a whole heart makes just ... You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat. I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten ... The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. My lowest days as a Christian [and There Were Low Ones--Seven Months Worth Of Them In Prison, To ... When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than suff ... Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doc ... A man can be destroyed but not defeated. I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it ... The man who wins may have been counted out several times but he didn't hear the referee. Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity. I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat. We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated. Defeat doesn't finish a man -- quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished wh ... To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civi ... Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact. The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartl ... Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustl ... A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself. The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back fr ... Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor? Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed pr ... Self-defense is Nature's eldest law. Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression. They say that the best defense is offense, and I intend to start offending right now. There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded K ... Attack is the best form of defense. We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely in ... Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers ... Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent ... By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dis ... The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade o ... It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceasel ... In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined. A delay is better than disaster. No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit. Delegating means letting others become the experts and hence the best. Give up control even if it means the employees have to make some mistakes. If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues in ... You have to do many things yourself. Things that you cannot delegate. You can delegate authority, but you can never delegate responsibility for delegating a task to someo ... Deliberation. The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on. Reflection makes men cowards. Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so l ... There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of fol ... Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their ... Strange and predatory and truly dangerous, car thieves and muggers -- they seem to jeopardize all ou ... We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be ... Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity. He that seeks trouble never misses. Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, re ... Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was ... Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told. Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is ... The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for ... We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now w ... The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educat ... It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that ha ... Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because h ... The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard. The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are ... Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few. Democracy don't rule the world, you better get that in your head; this world is ruled by violence, b ... Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people ... When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling th ... Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa! The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy. Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a ... Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff obj ... The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land. I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me. It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to stre ... The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and ... Democracy without morality is impossible. Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artist's power should be spiritua ... Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave. Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity. You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in the people. One class is no better than an ... The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar ... As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority ... This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement -- that it loves a crowd and fears the indiv ... Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find som ... Democracy give every man the right to be his own oppressor. Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is ... A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only b ... It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent ... The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy. Democracy is the theory that the common people know what They want, and deserve to get it good and h ... Democracy is also a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses. I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything u ... There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship. Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democr ... The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign stat ... Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice ... In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks. Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of e ... These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeabl ... Freedom without obligation is anarchy. Freedom without obligation is democracy. Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arr ... Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the ... Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy. There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as ... I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct -- nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they ... Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues an ... Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But the ... Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of t ... Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. I believe in democracy, because it releases the energies of every human being. Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles. America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it. That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic. The world must be made safe for democracy. Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends. Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. Interdependency follows independence. The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder. There is no one subsists by himself alone. There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self. Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously t ... Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again ... This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The ... The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense t ... Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving ven ... That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Re ... The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop. I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is ... Depression is melancholy minus its charms -- the animation, the fits. It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own. Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the cre ... Why kick the man downstream who can't put the parts together because the parts really weren't design ... Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist. Retail is detail. Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the crea ... Design is not for philosophy -- it's for life. The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamli ... Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambas ... A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one o ... I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore cho ... To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve. Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit ... The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without cea ... Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. Be careful what you set your heart upon -- for it will surely be yours. Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the ... Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrific ... Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Sq ... The desire of the lazy kill him; for his hands refuse to labor. [Proverbs 21:25] The desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. [Isaiah 26:8] And desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. &# ... The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul. [Proverbs 13:19] He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence. A man must earnestly want. We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coord ... If you do not develop the hunger and courage to pursue your goal, you will lose your nerve and you w ... You gotta be hungry! O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire. Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force. Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achie ... Desire is the thing you want in incipiency. I honestly believed I would make it. I had the desire. A lot of people have the ability, but they do ... No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child a ... Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence. If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen. It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his ... All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means. Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in you ... Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what ... The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your se ... Supply always comes on the heels of demand. You can have anything you want -- if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, h ... Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everyth ... It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it. Desire is proof of the availability... First the stalk -- then the roots. First the need -- then the means to satisfy that need. First the ... Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making. It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product ... Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it. Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs. There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratificatio ... Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far re ... It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived. Know what you want. Become your real self. It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow. If you desire many things, many things will seem few. The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain. While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err. People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable. When desire dies, fear is born. You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exu ... It (racing) is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little momen ... Just what you want to be, you will be in the end. A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the me ... By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no p ... The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring we ... Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire ... Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, nature ... When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. The battle is all over except the shouting when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to ... Desire creates the power. There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of p ... Events are influenced by our very great desires. If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. I can do whatever I want -- I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit tho ... You will live your life secure in that you are no longer manipulated by what other people want you t ... One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing th ... We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally. There are ways which lead to everything, and if we have sufficient will we should always have suffic ... Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven. Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power The discipline of desire is the background of character. Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution's in the soul. Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires. If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discov ... The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed. A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants su ... Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. ... I know that if I ever go looking for my heart's desire, I'll never go any further than my own back y ... The key that unlocks energy is Desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expec ... We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us. Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, ... The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if yo ... There is a vast difference in some instances between what we really need and that which we think we ... You can really have everything you want, if you go after it, but you will have to want it. The desir ... We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things ... First deserve then desire. Unbridled gratification produces unbridled desire. There are no better masters than poverty and wants. More than we use is more than we want. This gift is from God and not of man's deserving. But certainly no one ever receives such a great gr ... Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolut ... Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value. When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it. Why not spend some time determining what is worthwhile for us, and then go after that? Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are. All human activity is prompted by desire. I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it. The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for. Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner fac ... Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless. There is a supply for every demand. Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete. I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, ... A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separa ... An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but prec ... Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings. Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods. Desire is the essence of a man. The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man. I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich. To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is ... In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God mak ... From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the s ... If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated? Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact. I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody ... Convince a man of what he wants, and he'll move heaven and earth to get it. A woman never knows what she really wants until she fins out what her husband cannot afford. Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness. If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. No person can arise above his real desire. Desires are of value only when they drive us to action. W ... The distance between success and failure can only be measured by one's desire. The man who really wants to do something finds a way, the other finds an excuse. The more clear you are on what you want, the more power you will have. We accomplish things by directing our desires, not by ignoring them. Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talen ... You are what your deep driving desire is. As an eagle, weary after soaring in the sky, folds its wings and flies down to rest in its nest, so ... The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable. Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win. Where there is no power... there is never any desire to do a thing; and where there is strong desire ... Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen. It's not who jumps the highest -- it's who wants it the most You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other cir ... Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is small need ... I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair. Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level. So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right ... Action is the antidote to despair. Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of ... Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen ... To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case ... The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly des ... But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. Despair gives courage to a coward. When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There ... Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privileg ... Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgi ... Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapa ... Depression is the inability to construct a future. Despair is the only genuine atheism. To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volu ... All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew n ... The person who lives by hope will die by despair. Life begins on the other side of despair. Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement. Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-sw ... Man dies of cold, not of darkness. In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o clock in the morning, day after day. Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows ... Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they h ... What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are ... Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attenti ... There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins b ... My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very s ... The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despai ... So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism -- despotism during the campaign ... The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerou ...