Bion of Borysthenes Quotes

Old age is the harbor of all ills.

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• The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Able
  • Instincts
  • Repression

• I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Dog

• I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake the sleepers. ‘But it won’t - that’s the devil,’ he added in the same undertone.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Thinking
  • Stress
  • Devil

• Don't you worry about a thing, my darling. You live your life.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Worry
  • Live Your Life

• Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.

  

  Scott Turow
  • Love
  • Want

• I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Capable

• Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Mind
  • Spirit
  • Individual

• I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Exist
  • France
  • Feminism

• Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the Middle East.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Government
  • Philanthropy
  • Middle East

• There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since the first two pass our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.

  

  Aubrey Menen
  • God
  • Real
  • Laughter

• If you take away a rock from a pile of rocks you haven't changed much. It's still a heap of rocks - just a rock or two smaller. Take away a component from the mousetrap and it isn't a mousetrap any more.

  

  Michael Behe
  • Changed

• Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Reality
  • Rap
  • Going

• According to some reports coming out of Washington today, President Obama said Kanye West is a 'jackass.' Not since 'yes, we can' has Obama found a slogan so many Americans can get behind.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Today
  • Washington
  • President Obama

• When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Age
  • Old Age

• There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Life
  • Play
  • Old Age

• Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.

  

  Homer
  • Sing
  • Ills
  • Achilles

• Old age is the harbor of all ills.

  

  Bion of Borysthenes
  • Old Age
  • Ills
  • Harbor