top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
Author Name
Personal Development
"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."
Author Name
Personal Development
"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more."
Learning
"The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind."
Grief
"Great minds have purposes; others have wishes."
Purpose
"Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use."
Age
"Age is a matter of feeling, not of years."
Age
"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles."
Heart
"The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude."
Grief
"Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart."
Heart
"It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end."
Poverty
"There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place."
Change
bottom of page