How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!
Whatever a man’s age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.
Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments – notably those of the violin – but it seems to set a piano’s teeth on edge.
If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!
Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk.
I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.
I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.
When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is – heartbreaking bereavement.
The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.
It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.
To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man’s character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.
There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.
Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the whole evolved by natural and orderly processes from one microscopic parent germ.
Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.
Where are there are two desires in a man’s heart he has no choice between the two but must obey the strongest, there being no such thing as free will in the composition of any human being that ever lived.
You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.
I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure.
A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.
In religion and politics, people’s belief’s and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.