Life & Aging Sayings

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.

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.'

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

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

Blessed are the forgetful; for they get over their stupidities, too.

History is thorough and goes through many phases when carrying an old form to the grave. The last phase of a world-historical form is its comedy.

What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

In that case the word holds for these youths: 'Mind you, the devil is old; grow old to understand him.'

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Why is his last new novel sleep itself? Because it's so poor. — sopor.

I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.

The petrifactions of a plodding brain.

Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race.

I showed her where she would find gold, but the gold she found is all hers.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

I always thought I'd be dead by 30, then dead by 40 and on and on. Now I'm 55 so I didn't even die at 50.

When you are young, you do a lot of stupid things.