Philippe Aries Quotes

#1. What would Chess be without silly mistakes?

Kurt Richter

#2. You're making me feel like a skunk at the garden party.

Ken Starr

#3. It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth" is the privileged age of the seventeenth century, childhood of the nineteenth, adolescence of the twentieth.

Philippe Aries

#4. People like you should be stopped, Mr. Woodrow,' she mused aloud, with a puzzled shake of her wise head. 'You think you're solving the world's problems but actually you're the problem.

John Le Carre

#5. I'm obviously younger, much better looking [then Jeorge W.Bush].He didn't veto things, he didn't bring order and fiscal restraint.

Stephen Colbert

#6. Too evident sorrow does not inspire pity but repugnance, it is the sign of mental instability or of bad manners: it is morbid.

Philippe Aries

#7. Growing up, I was a nerd. With actual taped eyeglasses.

Taye Diggs

#8. Who runs in circles never gets far.

Thornton Burgess

#9. Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.

Farley Mowat

#10. Death must simply become the discreet but dignified exit of a peaceful person from a helpful society that is not torn, not even overly upset by the idea of a biological transition without significance, without pain or suffering, and ultimately without fear.

Philippe Aries

#11. The denial of death is openly acknowledged as a significant trait of our culture. The tears of the bereaved have become comparable to the excretions of the diseased

Philippe Aries

#12. Poverty is a fortress without drawbridges.

Albert Camus