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(Wisdom of the Elders) Blog of quotations, epigrams,& excerpts. COMMENT/DISCUSS: twitter.com/PSeniorum.

Category: literature

Posted on April 30, 2022

“You who seek an end of love—love will yield to busyness: be busy, and you will be safe.”—Publius Ovid, Roman poet, 43 BC–18 AD

Posted on April 1, 2022

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.”—Douglas Adams, English author, 1952-2001

Posted on March 21, 2022March 21, 2022

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”—Herman Melville, American novelist, 1819-1891

Posted on March 4, 2022

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that g_____mn mountain.”—Jack Kerouac, American novelist & poet, 1922-1969

Posted on February 2, 2022February 2, 2022

“One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.”—J.B. Priestley, English novelist, 1894-1984

Posted on December 15, 2021

“To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.”—Walter Pater, English essayist, 1839-1894

Posted on November 24, 2021November 24, 2021

“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.”—Henry James, American author, 1843-1916

Posted on November 6, 2021November 6, 2021

“An artist is his own fault.”—John O’Hara, American author, 1905-1970

Posted on October 11, 2021

“He writes nothing whose writings are not read.”—Martialis, Roman poet from Hispania, 38 AD–104 AD

Posted on September 19, 2021September 19, 2021

” ‘Classic.’ A book which people praise and don’t read.”—Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, American author & humorist, 1835-1910

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