"Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows."

-- Honore de Balzac

#Past Quotes #Men Quotes #Sorrow Quotes

“What does Christmas mean if we can't encourage small children to sit on a stranger's lap?”
“It's funny when you put music up against picture, and all your preconceptions go away, and you start over. You just realize that that doesn't work at all.”
“The goal is to be the observer of your thoughts and not let your thoughts control you.”
“The greatest damage done by advertising is precisely that it incessantly demonstrates the prostitution of men and women who lend their intellects, their voices, their artistic skills to purposes in which they themselves do not believe, and that it teaches [in the words of Leo Marx] 'the essential meaninglessness of all creations of the mind: words, images, and ideas.'”
“It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.”
“For a woman, a son offers the best chance to know the mysterious male existence.”
“Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.”
“I loved my own Grandparents with all my heart. I learned important lessons from them about how to treat people, how to cook and how to work.....they showered us kids with love and left the parenting to Momma and Daddy. That's the beauty of being a grandparent - the hard work belongs to someone else. I guess I never really understood the depth of their love for me until I became a grandmother myself... it is unlike any other relationship.”

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