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- I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Life is one long process of getting tired.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), Notebooks, 1912
- Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Rasselas, 1759
- A person may cause evil to others not only by his action but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
- Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous.
- Harvey Cox, On Not Leaving It to the Snake, 1967
- At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty the wit; at forty the judgement.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- I'm having a glorious old age. One of my greatest delights is that I have outlived most of my opposition.
- Maggie Kuhn, Speech to Vermont state legislature, 1991
- The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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