A Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French - Writer
September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680

We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their age. It is scary, but the alternative is worse.

Daniel Dennett

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

Samuel Richardson

The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse-that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory to those who support it.

H. L. Mencken

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If I grew up with a lot of money, where everything was just handed to me, I feel like those are the people that, a lot of time, grow up to do worse things. Or they'll start in a business really young, like eight or something, through all their schooling.

Justin Bieber

The very essence of gravity was design, and, consequently, deceit; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense end knowledge than a man was worth; and that with all its pretensions it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it--a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind.

Laurence Sterne

We must sometimes bear with little defects in others, as we have, against our will, to bear with natural defects in ourselves. If we wish to keep peace with our neighbor, we should never remind anyone of his natural defects.

Philip Neri

The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.

Cindy Crawford

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

Michel de Montaigne

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

William Hazlitt

I cannot think of a worse way of destroying an animal. Only two other methods come to mind, and they are similar. One is to boil the fox alive, and the other is to burn it alive. Those are just about the only alternatives that are worse than hunting.

Bill Etherington

In the Middle East there are two kinds of regimes - those that could be worse, and those that couldn't be worse.

Bret Stephens

...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion; that those who are so unwilling to quit the world will soon be driven from it; and that it is therefore in their interest to retire while there yet remain a few hours of nobler employments.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist.

Christopher Paolini

I should never conclude were I to speak to you of all the misfortunes which have their origin in the faulty carriage of the body. All these defects, mortifying for those who have contracted them, cannot be remedied except in their early stages. A habit born in childhood is strengthened in youth, becomes deeply rooted in adulthood and is incurable in old age.