| "It is as natural to die as to be born and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other." »Francis Bacon |
| "Original Poems for infant Minds My MotherWho ran to help me when I fell,And would some pretty story tell,Or kiss the place to make it wellMy Mother." »Anonymous |
| "To Tennessee Williams, children were 'no-neck monsters,' while William Wordsworth apotheosized the newborn infant as a 'Mighty Prophet Seer Blest' Most adults know the truth is somewhere in between." »Eloise Salholz |
| "The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination." »J. R. R. Tolkien |
| "The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different." »Aldous Huxley |
| "It's not that age brings childhood back again, Age merely shows what children we remain." »German proverb |
| "Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place." »Abigail Van Buren |
| "He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden." »Plato |
| "I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time." »Louise Nevelson |
| "Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up by itself." »Woodrow Wilson |
| "Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all." »Matthew Arnold |
| "I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic." »Winston Churchill |
| "In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them." »Brooks Atkinson |
| "Age to me means nothing. I can't get old I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age." »George Burns |
| "So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall reach the ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is infinite in all directions, not only above us in the large but also below us in the small." »Emil Wiechert |
| "The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat." »Napolean Hill |
| "Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age." »Anais Nin |
| "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times it ws the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair we had everything before us, we had nothing before us we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way." »Charles Dickens |
| "Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age." »Victor Hugo |
| "Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass." »Henry Seely |
| "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only." »Charles Dickens |
| "In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri." »Douglas Adams |
| "No sin is small." »Jeremy Taylor |
| "It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it." »Steven Wright |
| "The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood." »Arthur Powell Davies |
| "There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you." »Carol Matthau |
| "There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income." »Edmund Wilson |
| "Small to greater matters must give way." »William Shakespeare |
| "A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation." »Isaiah IX.22 Bible |
| "Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs." »Henry Ford |
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