#aged

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#does #his #like #man #mothers

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#everything #know #middle-aged #old #suspect

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#always #infinitely #mean #other #people

I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss? ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#i #loss #mean #songs #tragedy

The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#aged #any #brilliant #business #death

The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.' ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#birth #gave #land #optimistic #pessimistic

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#breaks #get #instead #tragedy #tree

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#aggressive #attempting #because #engaged #happily

By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief. ↗

— John Woolman

#been #breaking #countries #enraged #flourishing

Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit. ↗

— Judith Wright

#addictions #alluring #aspect #attain #cases