Best difficulty & age Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.”

Thinking Play Would Be Age Difficult Growing Difficulty Determine Sermons

Book:The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

“Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.”

Years Problem Age Spirit Progress Middle Civilization Thousand Years Ago Difficulty Middle Ages Disturbed Hebrew

Author:Isaac Mayer Wise

“Only to two or three persons in all the world are the reminiscences of a man's early youth interesting: to the parent who nursed him; to the fond wife or child mayhap afterwards who loves him; to himself always and supremely--whatever may be his actual prosperity or ill fortune, his present age, illness, difficulties, renown, or disappointments--the dawn of his life still shines brightly for him, the early griefs and delights and attachments remain with him ever faithful and dear.”

“He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.”

Thinking Believe Age Young Belief Natural Wise Fool Difficulty Caught Conviction Alacrity

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“Much has seen said of the wisdom of old age. Old age is wise, I grant, for itself, but not wise for the community. It is wise in declining new enterprises, for it has not the power nor the time to execute them; wise in shrinking from difficulty, for it has not the strength to overcome it; wise in avoiding danger, for it lacks the faculty of ready and swift action, by which dangers are parried and converted into advantages. But this is not wisdom for mankind at large, by whom new enterprises must be undertaken, dangers met, and difficulties surmounted.”

Said Age Action Community Wise Mankind Danger Ready Mets Advantage Overcoming Difficulty Old Age Enterprise Faculty Grants Avoiding Shrinking

Author:William C. Bryant

“Aging is fraught with difficulties, most particularly for women who have been socialized to think of youth as beauty and the female role as reproduction.”

Thinking Has Beens Age Roles Youth Female Difficulty Aging Think Of You Reproduction Female Roles

Book:Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America

Source: Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America

“The age was still dark and reeked of the havoc and misfortunes of the Goths who had put all good literature to destruction. But, by God's goodness, in my time light and dignity were returned to letters, and I see there such improvement that today I would have great difficulty being admitted to the most elementary classes--I, who in my time was reputed to be (and not wrongly) to be the most knowledgeable person of the century.”

“Once established, an original river advances through its long life, manifesting certain peculiarities of youth, maturity and old age, by which its successive stages of growth may be recognized without much difficulty.”

May Long Age Certain Growth Stage Youth Rivers Difficulty Originals Old Age Maturity Manifest Long Life

Book:Geographical Essays

Source: Geographical Essays

“Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career.”

Way May Long Two Age Three Space Careers Particular Difficulty Favors Old Age Boots Lease Long Careers Traverse

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Sir, Your letter of the 15th is received, but Age has long since obliged me to withhold my mind from Speculations of the difficulty of those of your letter, that their are means of artificial buoyancy by which man may be supported in the Air, the Balloon has proved, and that means of directing it may be discovered is against no law of Nature and is therefore possible as in the case of Birds, but to do this by mechanical means alone in a medium so rare and unassisting as air must have the aid of some principal not yet generally known.”

Men Mind May Mean Long Age Law Known Cases Air Bird Letters Difficulty Aids Mediums Aviation Artificial Principal Predictions Speculation Obliged Laws Of Nature Balloons Buoyancy

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Resolved, that I will do whatsoever I think to be most to God’s glory, and my own good, profit and pleasure, in the whole of my duration, without any consideration of the time, whether now, or never so many myriad’s of ages hence. Resolved to do whatever I think to be my duty and most for the good and advantage of mankind in general. Resolved to do this, whatever difficulties I meet with, how many and how great soever.”

Thinking Whole Age My Own Pleasure Mankind Duty Glory Advantage Difficulty Profit Consideration Duration Now Or Never

Book:Selected Writings of Jonathan Edwards: Second Edition

Source: Selected Writings of Jonathan Edwards: Second Edition

“Most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.”

Age Losing Difficulty Instinct Forgotten Contact

Book:The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung

Source: The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung

“Required to be constantly recumbent I write slowly and with difficulty.... Weakened in body by infirmities and in mind by age, now far gone into my 83rd year, reading one newspaper only and forgetting immediately what I read.”

Writing Years Mind Body Age Reading Forget Gone Difficulty Newspapers Infirmity

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.”

Writing Stills Age Novel Written Difficulty Paragraph

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“I have found on Alpha that those from an essentially enlightened background feel at home with the parts of the course which appeal to the mind, but often have difficulty in experiencing the Holy Spirit. Others coming from the New Age movement find that rational and historical explanations leave them cold, but at the weekend away they are on more familiar territory in experiencing the Holy Spirit”

Source: How to Run the Alpha Course Telling Others

“Well I started out on guitar, so it is still the mainstay of my music. But I have recently been working very hard on my piano, and it is coming along to the point where it is taking more of the spotlight. It has been my plan to be able to make music well into my old age, and sitting down seems like a good idea. Also, I don't have to carry the piano on the road. I haven't been playing the banjo much of late because of the difficulties of travelling with so much gear. But maybe I'll bring it to Japan. It adds a different color to the musical palette.”

“I think that each of us is so much alike, and yet at the same time we are so different, and I have a feeling that if you encountered difficulty, and I with my age encountered the same difficulty, I would respond one way, and you would respond another. Neither would be right or wrong. It's just that each of us is courageous, and that's what I encourage, courage, and the courage to see, and the courage to say to oneself what one has seen. Don't be in denial.”

Ifs Thinking Way Different Feelings Would Be Age Difficulty Oneself One Way Denial Courageous

Author:Maya Angelou

“In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.”

Running Age Time Youth Difficulty Aging Old Age Getting Old Getting Older

Author:Beverly Sills

“The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.”

Source: Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir

“Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than a cuckoo clock. I wish to goodness I knew the man who invented this infernal game. I'd strangle him. But I suppose he's been dead for ages. Still, I could go and jump on his grave.”

Men Stills Age Games Wish White Brain Failing He Man Goodness Capable Balls Difficulty Golf Graves Clock Empires Governing Cuckoos Cuckoo Clocks

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.”

Inspirational Firsts Age Basketball First Time Difficulty Eight

Author:Julius Erving

“Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to recognize the ethics that knows no bounds. But on the other hand, those who believe in love for all creation must realize clearly the difficulties involved in the problem of a boundless ethic and must be resolved not to veil from humankind the conflicts which this ethic will involve us, but allow us really to experience them. To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation this is the difficult task which confronts our age.”

“Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.”

Age Gratitude Difficulty Grateful Epiphany Spoilt

Author:Alain de Botton

“Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it? .. But in truth I know nothing about the philosophy of education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them.”

Knows Needs Humans Children Art Important Philosophy Seems Age Lying Known Teach Areas Treats Difficulty Educational Educate Philosophy Of Education

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“It was entirely due to my mother [a devout Buddhist] and her kindness and perseverance that the family was saved from utter ruin. For a period of 17 years--from the age of 9 until I was 25 years old--my mother never spent a day free from domestic difficulties.”

Years Age Mother Kindness Periods Difficulty Perseverance Dues Saved Ruins Buddhist

Author:Chiang Kai-shek

“It often happens that the universal belief of one age of mankind — a belief from which no one was, nor without an extraordinary effort of genius and courage, could at that time be free — becomes to a subsequent age so palpable an absurdity, that the only difficulty then is to imagine how such a thing can ever have appeared credible.”

Ideas Happens Age Belief Effort Imagine Genius Universal Difficulty Extraordinary Absurdity Credible

Author:John Stuart Mill

“Single motherhood is a reality for a lot of women in my age group and the time difficulties in their lives are universal.”

Reality Age Groups Universal Difficulty Motherhood Single Mother Single Motherhood

Author:Nicholas Sparks

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