Life & Aging Sayings

You people are more stupid than a block of wood.

The sage governs by emptying senses and filling bellies.

Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real ones arrive.

The only advantage of my disability is that I do not get put on a lot of boring committees.

I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.

The most dangerous phrase in the language is, 'We've always done it this way.'

What an excellent horse do they lose, for want of address and boldness to manage him! ... I could manage this horse better than others do.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

What's the idea? We blow the brains out of anybody who sticks his head into our sleigh, huh?

Oh!, no, women do not die for such trifles.

He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.

This man may look smart but in fact is stupid.

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.

Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.

Life is like being at the dentist. You always think the worst is still to come, and it is over already.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul follows the body, and ought to be pure.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.