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 | "How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age
is replete." | |
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Found in the topic Age.
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| "It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly
sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like
eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary,
decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad." | |
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Found in the topic Egg.
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| "The chief end of man, as I see it, is to find security, have liberty
to express his abilities, enjoy the love of family and friends, and to
secure recognition of his talents, to worship God in his own way, and to
participate in a government that will protect him in his exercise of these
liberties, and by education and training in the development of the arts and
sciences, and the techniques of their application, help him to find his
proper place in the scheme of things." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "The safest road to Hell is the gradual one ? the gentle slope, soft
underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without
signposts." | |
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Found in the topic Hell.
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| "Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every
virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest
reality." | |
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Found in the topic Courage.
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| "Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another:
"What! You, too? I thought I was the only one."" | |
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Found in the topic Friendship.
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| "Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people."
People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war....
Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the
expense of the rest...." | |
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Found in the topic Instinct.
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| "The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or
middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather [for the
devil]." | |
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Found in the topic Devil.
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| "What you see and hear depends a great deal on where you are
standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are." | |
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Found in the topic Depend.
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| "To love at all is to be vulnerable." | |
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Found in the topic Love.
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| "You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not
such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand
experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have
no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better
? the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of
Spenser, of Austen, of Brontė, of anyone else I have read." | |
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Found in the topic Education.
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| "Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If
you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not
even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries;
avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your
selfishness. But in that casket ? safe, dark, motionless, airless ? it
will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable,
impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable." | |
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Found in the topic Hurt.
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