I don't think actors ever retire, they just stop being asked to work.
In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.
Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris
Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to which all can look for salvation in adversity, instead of allowing them to subsist against the day of danger when their aid may be required
Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.
I love being a mom. Being a mother is my favorite thing ever.
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.
The worshipper of energy is too physically energetic to see that he cannot explore certain higher fields until he is still.
The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.