Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
 ~life by Victor Hugo

Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one’s provisional consent.
 ~sayings about life by Stephen Jay Gould

Never judge a day by its weather. Sunshine is uplifting; rain, nourishing; wind, exhilarating, snow, cleansing; hail, stimulating. Any weather is better than none.
 ~quotes about Living by

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
 ~motivational life quotes by Oscar Wilde

Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration.
 ~saying on Gardens by Lou Erickson

When freedom from want and freedom from fear are achieved, man’s remains will be in rigor mortis.
 ~motivational life quotes by Martin H. Fischer

We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
 ~life by Gerald Brenan

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses
 ~sayings about life by Virginia Woolf

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.
 ~quotes about Books Reading by Ross MacDonald

Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness
 ~motivational life quotes by Ellie Katz

Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once
 ~saying on Entertainment by Unknown

The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.
 ~motivational life quotes by John Jay Chapman

If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.
 ~life by Charles Sanders Peirce

A goodbye isn’t painful unless you’re never going to say hello again
 ~sayings about life by Author Unknown

Gossip needn’t be false to be evil - there’s a lot of truth that shouldn’t be passed around.
 ~quotes about Gossip by Frank A. Clark