Aging Warrior Quotes & Sayings

I'm not crying because of you; you're not worth it. I'm crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are. — Steve Maraboli

I would have much rather been in the jalopy with the kids, going to Hunt's for hamburgers. But, when I entered high school, all my friends got into sororities and fraternities and I didn't. — Betty Friedan

The poet who writes "free" verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and darning for himself. In a few exceptional cases, this manly independence produces something original and impressive, but more often the result is squalor dirty sheets on the unmade bed and empty bottles on the unswept floor. — W. H. Auden

There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea. — Madame De Stael

The rules and limitations that once prevented accidents now prevented creativity. — Stanley McChrystal

Most people think of love as a feeling, but love is not so much a feeling as a way of being present. — David Richo

I go to the shelf and pick out a few poetry books to take with me. A few old favorites and a few I haven't gotten to yet. As I slip the books into my carry-on, it occurs to me that there really are a lot of poems about death, that I've always read many poems about dying, but had almost never noticed them before. They were always the ones I lightly skimmed, and I thought that maybe I could start reading these poems more carefully. It was almost nothing, but it was also a decision about my life. — Jacob Wren

The fear of the violent and the lawless is no less a tyranny than the edicts that come from the Emperor's throne. — Timothy Zahn

Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place. — Woodrow Wilson

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose. — Peace Pilgrim

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why. — William Barclay

Books are ever available friends, ready to serve you at will. — Grenville Kleiser

Flathead on the mountain. Taking them one at a time, she had the can of brains that belonged to each one opened and the contents spread on the flat head, after which, by means of her arts of sorcery, — L. Frank Baum

Gold is not overvalued at $500, and gold will not be overvalued at $1,500 or $2,000. The real money is buying gold and putting it away. — Peter Schiff