John Gay Quotes

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.

I've been around a long time. I've seen it all before.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.

It's a very young mistake to assume that life is very serious. I get the joke now.

Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.

There's truths you have to grow into.

Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.

As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical.

One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.

The older you get, the more you learn.

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

But time growing old teaches all things.

I'm an old cynic.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

I think people in Europe are generally pessimistic about the future. They have low expectations; they're not working hard to change things. When you're a slacker with a pessimistic view of the future, you're likely to meet those expectations.

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

I think I still have a great sense of adventure and trust, and am surprisingly idealistic given all the horrible things I've seen since I was 25. I think how I have changed is that I have a much deeper understanding of the dark forces in the world, of power.

I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.

What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them.

Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.