Authors by Name: 'O':

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

249 views about aging

This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.

84 other sayings relating to morning

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

198 sayings regarding business

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

233 sayings about being alone

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

249 wisdom & wit about aging

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

62 more wisdom & wit regarding architecture

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

249 wisdom & wit about aging

Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.

199 other wisdom & wit about freedom

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

218 views about beauty

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

231 other wisdom & wit relating to poetry

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

26 quotes about fame

Mother's Day May 12, 2025