Life & Aging Sayings

If you are ever called to bear a message to the people, do not go without your purse or your scrip, but go forth in the name of the Lord.

I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life – doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Life is a party. Dress for it.

I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one.

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.

The age of the flying machine is coming; it is not here yet, but it is coming.

The highest value of human life lies in its service to humanity.

The meaning of life is that it stops.

The popular view is that the brain is a kind of telephone exchange. I believe that it is not quite as simple as that.

The most important thing in life is to be happy, and to make others happy.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

My brain is like a sponge. I soak up everything I hear and read.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

The less you know about how sausages are made and laws are passed, the better you'll sleep at night.

The old society has been radically reformed, but not abolished. The new society has not been born.

If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.

My life has been a constant struggle against injustice.