“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete”
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“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete”
“An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick ”
“Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice”
“A shoe too large trips one up”
“The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin”
“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband”
“Without sunshine a flower cannot live. Even a marriage can’t live ”
“Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened”
“She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness”
“All diseases run into one, old age”
“Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul”
“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age”
“Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience”
“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues”
“The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity ”
“To err is human; to forgive, divine ”
“Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues”
“Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs”
“Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated”
“People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves ”