The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
Quote by George Santayana
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The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
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George Santayana Quotes
- The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.
- Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
- The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
- Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.
- Love is only half the illusion the lover, but not his love, is deceived.
- Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.
- Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.
- To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
- Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.
Best Quotes
- My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
- I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.
- What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
- I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.
- Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
- We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
- If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.
- Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
- Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.
- Humility is truth.