As We Get Old

A rich man has no need of character. - Hebrew Proverb

Once people begin to reason, all is lost. - Voltaire

Life is a relationship between molecules. - Linus Pauling

Adversity tests a man's true character. - Unknown

The heart has reasons that reason cannot know. - Blaise Pascal

Never argue with a woman, a winner, or a weapon. - Frank Dane

Women in London must have learned not to breathe. - Irene Trimble

The essential thing is not knowledge, but character. - Joseph Le Conte

I am a strong woman because a strong woman raised me. - Unknown

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. - Ambrose Bierce

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice. - Benjamin Disraeli

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give me a woman who truly loves beer and I will conquer the world. - Kaiser Willhelm II

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others. - Wayne Dyer

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another. - H L Mencken

Women with pasts interest men. They hope history will repeat itself. - Mae West

My greatest regret is not knowing at 30 what I knew about women at 60. - Arthur Miller

I was always a character actor: I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood. - Paul Newman

Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive. - Kirk Douglas

In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life. - George Best

Menopause is our chance to say, "I am woman - open a freaking window." - Unknown

Here's to strong women. May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them. - Unknown

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason. - Blaise Pascal

You can only go as high on the leadership ladder as your character will allow you. - John C Maxwell

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason. - Andre Gide

It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women. - French Proverb

It is important to understand that it is a prayer life that builds character that honours God. - Ravi Zacharias

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. - George Bernard Shaw

Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life. - John C. Geikie

Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it's not out there is that it's inside us. - Sonja Lyubomirsky

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. - Ogden Nash

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. - Robert Frost

If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence. - Will Cuppy

Babies are bits of stardust, blown from the hand of God. Lucky the woman who knows the pangs of birth, for she has held a star. - Larry Barratto

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing. - Norman Cousins

It's really hard to maintain a one-on-one relationship if the other person is not going to allow me to be with other people. - Axl Rose

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking. - Bill Vaughan

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. - Marcus Aurelius

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism. - Germaine Greer

A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills. They'd make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while. - Robin Williams