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age way young
I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age. Charles Dickens
age church body
We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church. Charles Caleb Colton
age waste excess
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
age matter fairytale
In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.
age pay time-is-money
I've reached an age at which I'd rather pay more for something that "just works" than roll up my sleeves, reach for a spanner, and make it work. Time is money, and the older we get the less of it we've got left. Charles Stross
age amusement serious
Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle! Charles Spurgeon
agents very-good turns
I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that. Alan Rickman
age towns my-family
Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments. Alan Jackson
age golden golden-rule
Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you. Alan Alda
children pride men
There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride in the appearance of himself and those about him, in preference to a sullen, slovenly fellow, who works doggedly on, regardless of his own clothing and that of his wife and children, and seeming to take pleasure or pride in nothing.
children father heart
Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.
children sea play
There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes or drowned in the deep sea.
children parenting expectations
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
children grieving two
It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.
children father past
How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise.
children knowledge enemy
Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.
children gambling parent
Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.
children heaven wish
Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.
envy design lucky
To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky accident or blind chance, but happiness must be the result of prudent preference and rational design; the highest happiness then can have no other foundation than the deepest wisdom; and the happiest fool is only as happy as he knows how to be.
envy praise envious
The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.
envy reason instinct
If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.
envy victory spy
Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.
envy mediocre
Envy is the religion of the mediocre Carlos Ruiz Zafon
envy violence wealth
Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence. Edward Gibbon
envy secret excellence
it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it. Elizabeth Montagu
envy long together
Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails. Edmund Waller
envy people may
A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as indulgence in forbidden impulses would have been. People who live a life which is unnatural beyond a point are likely to be filled with envy, malice and uncharitableness. Bertrand Russell
given no-hope pledge
God has given no pledge which He will not redeem, and encouraged no hope which He will not fulfill.
given guy guys perception
The perception now is that (Woods) is still the guy to beat. But I don't think guys think it's a given that he's going to win. Lee Janzen
given park rules
We've already given them an extension. It's really simple: The rules of the park have to be followed. Sharon Stewart
given life lived name people talk tony
I hate it when people talk about Tony Curtis and say: 'His real name was Bernie Schwartz... ' That was just the name that he was given at birth. It's not the person he lived his life with, and became. Nicolas Roeg
given movies sad
A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I'm sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it's given them longevity.
given relevant considering
I have given up considering happiness as relevant. Edward Gorey
given hoard wealth
Wealth that you hoard is not yours; wealth that you have given is really yours. Sathya Baba
given heck love sharks shocked
What the Sharks did, it shocked the heck out of me. We've always been rivals, but I think they know how much I love this game, and how much I've given to it. Luc Robitaille
given
We have assumed control where once we worked with what we were given. Bill McKibben
leads lose national vision
make us desperate, to make us lose hope, to make us lose the national vision that leads us. Ariel Sharon
leads switch
She didn't want to switch leads but when she did, she accelerated again.
leads
I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present. Vidya Balan
leads
Sometimes the leads are equally balanced, like in 'Romeo and Juliet,' but sometimes they're just not.
leads
We don't have any leads that would take us out of this area,
leads people
People want a say in who leads them.
leads
One thing leads to another with my work. Damien Hirst
leads
more tips, more leads as this investigation proceeds.
leads numerous positive priority pursuing putting south valid
Numerous leads have come in from South Florida. We are determining how valid they are and then putting them in priority and pursuing the most important leads first. There have been some real positive tips.
members undead
You stole from a member of the undead Darren Shan
members nations united
All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.
members officials original together tribe university wonder
University officials and tribe members are working together on the appeal. We were heartened by (Tuesday's) news, and we think it's the right decision. Frankly, we wonder if (the NCAA) ever read some of the original documentation we filed in the first place. Steve Smith
member upgrade youngest
One of my goals here in Congress, being the youngest member of the California delegation, is to really try and get the institution to upgrade the way it communicates with its constituents.
member observed technical
We have had them (Greece) observed by a member of our technical staff,
members sexiest placebo
Stef is officially the sexiest member of Placebo Brian Molko
members primary protect staff student students
The primary consideration was to protect the student himself, and protect the students around him, as well as the staff members that were there.
members soon took union
When UTC took over there were 900 employees. Now there's 500 union members and soon it will be down to 350.
members mimicking policies pretend tory
I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic. Nigel Farage
people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude.
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
theory
The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful.
theory
Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively. Bo Burnham
theory observation
Observation always involves theory. Edwin Powell Hubble
theory understood convinced
Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it. Chaim Weizmann
theory
My theory. Music can fix anything. Anything. Asa Butterfield
theory
Everybody has a theory. Daniel Handler
theory precision unified
A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision. Brian Greene
theory
The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.
theory therefore trivial
If string theory is a mistake, it's not a trivial mistake. It's a deep mistake and therefore kind of worthy. Lee Smolin