"The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears."

Auden, W. H. | New Year | 2 bookmarks

"Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime."

Twain, Mark | Age and Aging | 5 bookmarks

"The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve."

Trevor-Roper, H. R. | Genius | 1 bookmarks

"When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife."

Edinburgh, Prince Philip, Duke of | Wives | 3 bookmarks

"The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new."

Thackeray, William M. | Writers and Writing | 1 bookmarks

"The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth -century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen."

Ally, Carl | Creativity | 1 bookmarks

"It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!"

Stevenson, Adlai E. | Life and Living | 2 bookmarks

"Don't just count your years, make your years count."

Meyers, Ernest | Age and Aging | 3 bookmarks

"For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice."

Eliot, T. S. | Words | 1 bookmarks

"The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."

Bragg, Sir William | Ideas | 2 bookmarks