Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
– Albert Camus
Thought for the Day: Age
I remember reading an article about the beautiful Nigella Lawson as few years back. She said that she used to add a few years to her real age when she was asked how old she was. She used to get very admiring and favourable comments and compliments about looking so much younger that the age she said. I wonder if Nigella had continued to add years to her age now?!!!
I am afraid, age and ageing can’t really be halted. One way or another it would show. It may be in your grey hair, telltale wrinkles on the forehead or under the eyes. Loosening of jaw line, sunspot at the back of your hands, turkey wattle on your neck and so much more.
Plenty have tried to defy aging, but only very, very few lucky ones have succeeded but ultimately, defeated. 🙂 – Jean Morton
While you have youth, use it wisely.
More quotes on Aging:
Youth is wasted on the young.
– could be by Oscar Wilde or George Bernard Shaw
Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.
~Maurice Chevalier
Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
– Benjamin Franklin
There is nothing more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.
– Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
– Henry Adams
Painting of Edmund Burke MP c. 1767, studio of Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792)
Edmund Burke is considered the Philosophical founder of Modern Conservatism.
BioData:
Full Name: Edmund Burke
Dob: 12 January 1730
PoB: Dublin, Ireland
Education: Trinity College, Dublin
Occupation: author, orator, political theorist, philosopher
Civil Status: Married to Jane Mary Nugent
Children: Richard Burke Jr
Political Background: Member of Parliament (MP) 1766 – 1794 Died: 9 July 1797 (68)
Edmund was born in Dublin to Richard Burke, a wealthy solicitor, who was a practising Anglican of the Church of Ireland, the faith Edmund was raised. His mother, Mary was a Roman Catholic who came from an impoverised but genteel family.
Though Edmund at no time denied his Irish roots, he often described himself as an Englishman.
Edmund was only 19 when he wrote A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. It was deemed an important work that eminent thinkers in the Continent such as Denis Diderot and Immanuel Kant paid attention.
For many years later, Edmund Burke was a Member of the Parliament.
Did you know?
The term “bite the hand that feeds you” which means total ingratitude, is attributed to Edmund Burke. He was apparently the one who coined the phrase, when he wrote:
“And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.”
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Below are some of the many notable quotes from Edmund Burke:
A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?
– Edmund Burke
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All government,—indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act,—is founded on compromise and barter.
– Burke
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
– Edmund Burke
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
– Edmund Burke
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
– Edmund Burke
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
~Edmund Burke
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Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
– Burke
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I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.
– Burke
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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
– Edmund Burke
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No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
– Edmund Burke
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasonig as fear.
– Edmund Burke
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‘‘ Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.’’
– Edmund Burke
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
– Edmund Burke
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity.
– Edmund Burke
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The march of the human mind is slow.
– Burke
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There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
– Burke
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
– Edmund Burke
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You can never plan the future by the past.
~Edmund Burke
A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
– Warren Buffett
‘‘ Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.’’
– Warren Buffett
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‘‘ I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.’’
– Warren Buffett
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I get afraid when everyone gets greedy; but when everyone gets afraid, I get greedy.
~ Warren Buffett
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In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.
– Warren Buffett
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I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.
– Warren Buffett
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Of the billionaire I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
– Warren Buffett
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Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for ten years.
~ Warren Buffett
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Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
-Warren Buffett
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Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
– Warren Buffett
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