Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

Quote by Charlotte Bronte

Topics: Age Quotes, Funny Quotes

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for...

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for...

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil...

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil...

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state...

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state...

Look twice before you leap.

Look twice before you leap.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must...

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must...

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to...

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to...

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain...

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain...

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing...

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing...

I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.

I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too...

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too...

Flirting is a womans trade, one must keep in practice.

Flirting is a womans trade, one must keep in practice.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the...

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the...

Who has words at the right moment?

Who has words at the right moment?

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly...

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly...