#gh

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#camel #dog #eighty #fifty #forty

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#advice #grave #joke #more #sometimes

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#because #just #just because #opponent #right

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#before #center #circumference #must #opportunity

I had a lot of different thoughts and ideas and always to transform, but I'm trying certain things that I feel my heart is really going for and that was one of the things that I initiated a few months ago. ↗

— Steffi Graf

#always #certain #certain things #different #feel

I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days. ↗

— Steffi Graf

#days #diaries #few #get #good

If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#high #high heels #men #them #wearing

At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think of. So here I am now, nearly half-way through, probably tied up until the year 2015 or SO. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#could #crime #down #half-way #here

Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#first #five #four #i #light

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.' ↗

— Billy Graham

#christian life #constant #deep #discouragement #eyes