Living and lifetime Quotes

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women

Better to be without logic than without feeling

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years

Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

One faces the future with one's past

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are

Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also

Let age approve of youth, and death complete the same

The world and its way have a certain worth

Progress is the law of life, man is not man as yet

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men

We come too late to say anything which has not been said already

They that have lived a single day have lived an age

Jesting is often only indigence of intellect