You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The utmost extent of man's knowledge is to know that he knows nothing.
Joseph Addison
Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
Henry Miller
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity coarseness revealing something, vulgarity concealing something.
E. M. Forster
Who other than a crazy person does anything besides hang up on a robo-call? Any call, any person, anywhere, under any circumstances.
P. J. O'Rourke
Do the duty which lies nearest to you the second duty will then become clearer.
Thomas Carlyle
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains at the huge waves of the sea at the long courses of the rivers at the vast compass of the ocean at the circular motions of the stars and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Saint Augustine
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
Michel de Montaigne
All the crap they tell you about... getting joy and having a kind of wisdom in your golden years - it's all tripe
Woody Allen
One can love a child perhaps more deeply than one can love another adult but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
George Orwell
