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People talk of killing time,
but time is quietly killing them.
Dion Boucicalt (1820-1890), London Assurance (1841), act 2, scene 1
Killing time is the name
for one of many ways
that time uses to kill us.
Osbert Sitwell (1892-1969), English writer, Milordo Inglese (1958)
The clock is always slow.
It is later than you think.
Robert W. Service (1874-1958), It is Later Than You Think (1921)
27. The Young and the Old
Everybody has been young before,
but not everybody has been old before.
African proverb
Believe the one who has been through it.
Virgil (70-19 BC), Roman poet, Aeneid book 10
To know the road ahead,
ask those coming back.
Chinese Proverb
If you choose not to be made straight
when you are green,
you will not be made straight when you are dry.
African proverb
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, in a way, protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau (1928- ), French actress, singer, writer, and director
When young, we learn.
When old, we understand.
Marie Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916), Austrian writer
The measure of life is not in its length,
but in what we do with it.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), Essai, No. 1, line 20
As long as you live, the first twenty years will be
the longest half of your life.
Robert Southey (1774-1843), English poet, The Doctor
I'm seventeen and crazy.
My uncle says the two always go together.
Ray Bradbury (1920- ), American writer, Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
I grow old, but I do not stop learning.
Solon (c. 640-556 BC), Greek poet and statesman,
Poetae Lyrici Graeci (1843), number 18
Nobody grows old just by living a number of
years. We grow old by losing our beliefs.
Samuel Ullman (1840-1924), American businessman and poet
We all want to live long.
But no one wants to be old.
Jonathon Swift (1667-1745), Irish writer, cleric, and political campaigner,
Thoughts on Various Subjects
Being old is not so bad when you think about
what the other choice is.
Author unknown
Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
Bernard M. Baruch (1870-1965), American financier and statesman
Forty is the old age of youth,
and fifty is the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French writer and statesman
If you live to be one hundred, you’ve got it
made. Very few people die past that age.
George Burns (1896-1996), American actor, comedian, and writer
The fountain of youth is boring as paint.
Methuselah is my most loved saint.
I’ve never been so comfortable before,
Oh I’m so glad I’m not young any more.
Alan Jay Lerner (1918-1986), American lyricist
I don’t worry about getting old. I’m old already.
Only young people worry about getting old.
George Burns (1896-1996), American actor, comedian, and writer
You know you are getting old when the candles
cost more than the cake.
Bob Hope (1903-2003), American comedian and actor
28. Family Life
What God has joined together,
let no man pull apart.
Jesus, Matthew 19:6
Yes, do marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates (469-399 BC), Greek philosopher
Husbands, love your wives,
and be not bitter against them.
The Bible, Colossians 3:19
I would be married, but I’d have no wife;
I would be married to a single life.
Richard Crashaw (c. 1613-1649), English poet
Never shall I say that marriage
brings more happiness than pain.
Euripides (480 BC - 406 BC), Greek playwright
The music at a wedding always makes me think
of the music of soldiers going into battle.
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German poet and literary critic
From Jesus we learn that the great curse of
Sodom and Gomorrah was not being homosexual.
It was buying and selling, planting and building,
and getting married.
Anonymous
All married people should learn the art of battle.
Good battle is honest, and never cruel.
Good battle is healthy and brings a feeling
of both people being equal.
Ann Landers (Epple Lederer), (1918-2002), advice columnist
Real love is having someone
who’ll go the distance with you. Someone who,
when the wedding day limo breaks down,
is willing to share a seat on the bus.
Oprah Winfrey (1954- ), talk show host, O Magazine, February 2004
The only two people who count in any marriage
are the two that are in it.
Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947- ), 67th U.S. Secretary of State
We were happily married for eight months.
But we were married for four and a half years.
Nick Faldo (1957- ), English professional golfer
Wife and Servant are the same,
But only different in the name.
Mary Chudleigh (1656-1710), English feminist writer
We men have got love well weighed up;
we can get by without it.
Women don’t seem to think that’s good enough;
They write about it.
Kingsley Amis (1922-1995), English writer and teacher
If men had to have babies,
they would only ever have one.
Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997), first wife of Prince Charles
All that women do,
they must do twice as well as men
before people will think they are half as good.
Charlotte Whitton (1896-1975), Canadian feminist & Mayor of Ottawa,
Canada Month June, 1963
If all men are born free,
how is it that all women are born slaves?
Mary Astell (1666-1731), English feminist writer
I do not want women to control men;
but to be able to control themselves.
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), English feminist writer & philosopher
A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792), chapter 4
When men are scared of a woman,
they always say that she is acting like a man.
Elizabeth Aston, English novelist, The Second Mrs. Darcy, 2007
Look like a girl, act like a woman,
think like a man, and work like a dog.
Caroline K. Simon (1900-1993), American lawyer and politician
Never marry a man who hates his mother,
because he’ll end up hating you.
Jill Bennett (1931-1990), British actress
As is the mother, so is her daughter.
The Bible, Ezekiel 16:44
Parents love their children
more than children love their parents.
Aristotle, (384-322 BC), Greek philosopher, Auctoritates Aristotelis
There is no such thing as
other people’s children.
Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947- ), 67th U.S. Secretary of State
The most interesting thing about America,
is the way the parents obey their children.
Edward VIII (1894-1972), King of England, who abdicated in 1936
God lends you your children until they’re about
eighteen years old. If you haven’t made your
points with them by then, it’s too late.
Betty Ford (1918-2011), U.S. First Lady from 1974-1977
We worry about what a child will be tomorrow,
yet we forget that he is someone today.
Stacia Tauscher, possibly 17th Century writer
It is easier to live through someone else
than to become whole yourself.
Betty Friedan (1921-2006), American writer, activist, and feminist
Children begin by loving their parents.
After a time they judge them.
They almost never forgive them.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish writer and poet
To a child, one of the clearest truths about
adults is that they have forgotten
what it was like to be a child.
Randall Jarrell (1914-1965), American writer and poet laureate
A child's life is like a piece of paper on which
every person leaves a mark.
Chinese Proverb
There are only two lasting gifts
we can give our children...
one is roots, the other wings.
Stephen Covey (1932- ), American author
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to free you from the need to lean.
Dorothy Fisher (1879-1958), American author and social activist
Many inventions had their birth as toys.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983), American author
We are the people
our parents warned us about.
Jimmy Buffett (1946- ), American singer, author, and film producer
A good son makes a good husband.
American proverb
The reason grandparents and grandchildren
get along so well
is because they have the same enemy.
Sam Levenson (1911-1980), American humourist, writer, and TV host
Never have children, only grandchildren.
Gore Vidal (1925- ), American writer and political activist
Family isn’t about whose blood you have. It’s
about who you care about.
Trey Parker & Matt Stone, creators of the U.S. TV series South Park
For thirty years my mother served the family
nothing but leftovers.
The first meal has never been found.
Calvin Trillin (1935- ), American writer and humourist
My grandmother started walking
five miles a day when she was sixty.
She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know
where on earth she is.
Ellen DeGeneres (1958- ), American comedienne and talk show host
A man’s home is his castle.
Edward Coke, The Institutes of the Laws of England, 1628
A child who does the right thing
makes his father happy;
but a foolish son or daughter
brings sadness to her mother.
The Bible, Proverbs 10:1
The family that prays together
stays together.
Al Scalpone, motto for the Catholic Family Rosary Crusade, 1947
A prophet is not without honour, apart from
in his own country, and in his own house.
Jesus, St Matthew 13:57
29. Friends
There is a friend
that sticks closer than a brother.
The Bible, Proverbs 18:24
We can live without a brother,
but not without a friend.
A friend is one spirit
living in two bodies.
Aristophanes (c. 450-c. 385 BC), Greek comic playwright
God gives us relatives.
Thank God we can choose our friends.
Ethel Mumford (c. 1877-1940), American author
Think where happiness starts and ends,
and say
“My happiness is that I had good friends.”
W. B. Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet and playwright,
The Municipal Gallery Re-visited (1939)
Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus (1913-1960), French author and philosopher
One never reaches home,
but wherever friendly paths meet
the whole world looks like home for a time.
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), German writer, painter & Nobel laureate
There are no strangers here;
Only friends you have not yet met.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet and playwright
It takes a lot of courage
to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma Bombeck (1927-1996), American humourist, author,& columnist
Open not your heart to every man.
The Bible, Ecclesiasticus 8:19
You cannot buy friends;
but you can sometimes rent them.
Anonymous
Love comes from being blind;
friends from knowledge.
Roger de Rabutin (1618-1693), French memoirist
To find a friend one must close one eye.
To keep him - two.
Norman Douglas (1868-1952), English writer
Before borrowing money from a friend,
think about which you need more.
Addison H. Hallock (biographic details unknown)
Your friend is the man who knows all about you
and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard (1865-1915), American writer, artist, and philosopher
The best mirror is an old friend.
George Herbert (1593-1633), Welsh orator and Anglican priest
Our friends, the enemy.
Pierre-Jean de Beranger (1780-1857), French poet and song-writer
There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend
to cut through the lies we tell ourselves.
Laura Moncur, motivational speaker, Merriton
A true friend thinks you're a good egg
even though he knows you're a little cracked.
Bernard Meltzer (1916-1998), Harvard graduate and radio show host
A friend is a present you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish novelist and writer
If you want friends, you must first be friendly.
The Bible, Proverbs 18:24
A trouble shared is a trouble cut in half.
Early 20th century proverb
A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
The Bible, Ecclesiasticus 5:15
30. Working Together
We must learn to live together as brothers,
or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King (1929-1968), civil rights activist, & Baptist minister
Do not protect yourself by a fence,
but rather by your friends.
Czech proverb
Throw your heart over the fence
and the rest will follow.
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993), American minister and author
The heart that gives, gathers.
Marianne Moore (1887-1972), American poet
Two heads are better than one.
Author unknown
All for one, and one for all.
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870), French writer,
The Three Musketeers (1844), chapter 9
No man is an island.
John Donne (1572-1631), English poet, lawyer, and priest
Together we stand; divided we fall.
John Dickinson (1732-1808), American lawyer and politician
Writings of John Dickinson volume 1 (1895), page 421
We are, each of us, angels with only one wing.
We can only fly by hugging one another.
Luciano de Crescenzo (1928- ),
Italian writer, actor, and engineer
When you live on a round planet,
there’s no choosing sides.
Wayne Dyer (1940- ), American self-help author and lecturer
From each as they have ability,
to each as they have need.
Karl Marx (1818-1883), German philosopher, historian, and journalist
Each affects the other
and the other affects the next,
and the world is full of stories,
but the stories are all one.
Mitch Albom, American writer and radio and TV broadcaster,
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
When evil people come together,
good people must come together too,
or they will fall one by one.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Irish stateman and philosopher
Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770), page 71
My life belongs to the whole community,
and as long as I live,
I will be happy to do for it whatever I can.
I want to be all used up when I die,
for the harder I work, the more I live.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish playwright
No cruel leader need fear
until men begin to feel confident in each other.
Aristotle (384-322 BC), Greek philosopher, student of Plato
The dwarf sees farther than the giant,
when he has the giant’s shoulder to mount on.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), English poet and philosopher
It is not for one to pride himself for loving his own country,
but rather for loving the whole world.
The earth is but one country.
Baha’u’llah (1817-1892), Persian founder of the Baha'i Faith
31. Political Life
Ask not what your country can do for you;
ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), 35th U.S. President,
Inaugural address, 20 January, 1961, Vital Speeches 1 February, 1961
The whole country is not in flames;
there are people in the country besides
politicians, entertainers, and criminals.
Charles Kuralt (1937-1997), American journalist
I don’t want to cover myself in the flag,
because I’m afraid I’ll get burned.
Warren Burger (1907-1995), 15th Chief Justice of the United States
The power to tax brings the power to destroy.
John Marshall (1755-1835), former Chief Justice of the U.S.
The reason there are so few female politicians
is that it is too much trouble
to put makeup on two faces.
Maureen Murphy (1952-2008), American politician
Like Caesar’s wife, all things to all men.
A newly-elected mayor, saying that he would be fair to all.
When I gave food to the poor,
they called me a saint.
When I asked why the poor were hungry,
they called me a communist.
Helder Camara (1909-1999), Roman Catholic Archbishop
I am just one thing only, and that is a clown.
It puts me far above any politician.
Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), English comic actor, composer, director
One who does not vote
has no right to complain.
Louis L’Amour (1908-1988), American author
If presidents wouldn’t do it to their wives,
then why would they do it to their countrymen?
Arthur Tugman (1938- ), American author of books on success
Who will guard the guards?
Juvenal (55-127 AD), Roman poet and satirist
When the President says something on Monday,
he still believes it on Wednesday--
no matter what happened on Tuesday.
Stephen Colbert (1964- ), American actor, writer, and TV host,
speech at White House correspondents' dinner, April 30, 2006
32. War and Peace
These politicians are all about
sending people to war,
but they don’t know what it’s all about,
having bombs go off, hearing bullets fly by.
They have no idea what that’s like.
Antonio Molina, returned soldier
We Americans, we’re a simple people...
but make us angry, and we’ll bomb your cities.
Robin Williams (1951- ), American actor and comedian
Choose the right weapon for the job.
You cannot change people’s hearts with guns.
Author unknown
Strength lies not in defense but in attack.
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), German dictator
There is no honour in battle
worth the blood it costs.
Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969), arny general & 34th U.S. President
Force is not an answer.
John Bright (1811-1889), The Times 17 November, 1880
What can wars give us
but more wars?
John Milton (1608-1674), English poet and civil servant
On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester (1648)
In war there are no winners.
All are losers.
Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940),
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