"The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody."

-- Eric Hoffer

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Sadness Quotes

“A painting has a lot of advantages over other forms of communication. Unlike a movie, you don't have to put it into a machine and turn it on. It's just there every day. It's not limited by the element of time. It's a constant part of the home.”
“We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.”

Source : Jimmy Carter, United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration, Gerald R. Ford (1978). “The Presidential campaign, 1976”
“The natural-born investor is a myth.”
“The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.”
“Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories.”
“Time is a beast who has the immense patience to swallow everything.”
“I am incomplete without my work. I am so closely bound to it, so much identified by it, that without it I think I would crumble into dust and drift away.”
“If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is much more fundamental than the ending of the fertile period of a woman's life, because it strikes at the core of what it is to be a man.”

Source : "Male Menopause: New Book Argues Midlife Transition Is Just As Hard On Men" By Shelley Emling, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

You may also like:

David D. Burns
Author
Eric Sevareid
Journalist
Erich Fromm
Psychologist
John Derbyshire
Writer
Karen Horney
Psychoanalyst
Michel de Montaigne
Writer
Sidney Poitier
Actor
Stanislav Grof
Psychiatrist
Thomas Sowell
Economist