The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age; a woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
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