More From Jean de la Bruyere
- "There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience."
- "Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do."
- "All men’s misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone."
More In Age
- "My husband gave me a necklace. It’s fake. I requested fake. Maybe I’m paranoid, but in this day and age, I don’t want something around my neck that’s worth more than my head."― Rita Rudner
- "I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti."― Henry Louis Gates
- "I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face."― Arthur Smith