#age

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years. ↗

— Simone Signoret

#chains #hold #hundreds #marriage #people

Given enough time, even evolution evolves. ↗

— Eric Chaisson

#time #age

At this age, all we need to do is to "WAIT" in our love life. Set your priorities, Endeavor your goals! ↗

— Marielle Arias Cleofe

#goals #love #priorities #wait #age

Death. It was something I had to think about once. Weird, right? Strange that death was ever an inevitable end, but it wasn’t anymore. Not really. I eluded it. Tricked it. It was an odd concept—the world aged, moved forward, yet I . . . didn’t. ↗

— Laura Kreitzer

#death #fantasy #fiction #timeless-series #age

O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#age

Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people. But, of course, these motorcars, television sets and refrigerators do not make a man happy. In the instant in which he acquires them, he may feel happier than he did before. But as soon as some of his wishes are satisfied, new wishes spring up. Such is human nature. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#age

I was a coward and a slave. I say this without the slightest embarrassment. Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#slave #age

As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#average #create #curriculum #district #five

I do not listen when anyone uses the word immoral," said the Wizard. "In the young it is ridiculous, in the old it is sententious and reactionary and an early warning sign of apoplexy. In the middle-aged, who love and fear the idea of moral life the most, it is hypocritical. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#morality #age

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#attention #bond #grabbing #james #james bond