Quotes by Hardy, Thomas

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. >>

Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; >>

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly gente >>

Quotations about Age and Aging

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet. >>

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got >>

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fifti >>

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas