Famous Sayings - Problem With The Young, Middle Aged & Old

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.

-Oscar Wilde

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Here’s another famous saying regarding the stages of growth, maturity and the characteristics that come with age. If it’s anyone that can loose their life savings, it’s the old…they do tend to grow a bit more than healthy trust…while the middle age have a bit too much the comes paranoia….the young are just out for themselves so they "know it all", right?…

What to do with this famous saying:

• Help older people who are often too gullible

• Help middle aged people who are too suspicious

• Help the young who usually don't want to listen, if they'll listen

• Don't make the same mistakes at the various stages of life yourself!
  

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Famous Sayings - Wisdom, Wit, Will and Age

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit, and at forty, the judgement.

-Henry Grattan

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I have found this famous saying to have run the same course in my life. I hope my wisdom will never be overshadowed by wit.

What to do with this famous saying:

Be aware where you are, because these things generally hold true. If you're on the stage of will or wit, shoot for wisdom! Will without wisdom is a waste. Wit is often just being a stuck up smartypants. Go for wisdom!

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Famous Sayings - A Quote About Friends

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

-J. Churton Collins

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This one is easy. If you have millions of dollars, everyone wants to be your friend and be associated with your riches so they too can prosper. But are these true friends? When you lose everything, then whoever still sticks by your side is a true friend.

Sometimes, to our surprise, we are without friends when we lose it all, or when we don’t have much. This is normal and should teach us to cherish the friends we do have when we are in this condition, for they are true friends.

What to do with this famous saying

Do not necessarily think that everyone hanging around you, if you are rich, is a friend or a person just hanging around you for the money. Instead, let the true test of adversity make it clear, should adversity befall you for a season, regarding who your friends really are.

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Famous Sayings - Why Always Take The Hard Road?

"Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious."

- Saint Thomas Aquinas

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I think the book “Games People Play” may have touched on this. We can, without being aware of it, make ourselves fall into a trap called total self denial and self punishment whereby we deprive ourselves continually the good things or the easy and smart way to dPublish Posto something because of our pride in hardship.

We think that if we work harder and deny ourselves to the extreme and otherwise punish ourselves, that some divine law will intervene and say “you deserve a million dollars for all of your hard physical labor and for your denial of everything good” or “here’s your spiritual reward”.

Yet the truth is, self-inflicted difficulty and hardship is foolish if there is an easier choice that results in the same. This is because we have denied through selfish pride the very gift and privilege that God himself bestowed…less difficulty and less hardship so as to lift a burden for us. Remember the story of Cain and Abel. Now you understand why obedience is better than sacrifice.

What to do with this famous saying

The next time you seek to take the harder route, be sure it is for the right reason, not just out of pride or thought that it may provide more merit, particularly if we have the easier route as a legitimate and honorable choice. If there’s an easier and smarter way to do something, then don’t feel guilty, go with it!

Try it as long as the method is just and doesn’t do ill to another. Sometimes I wonder if God sometimes scratches his head at why we want to make things more difficult that we really ought to or than he meant it to be (being facetious)...but you get my point...

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Famous Sayings - Why We Need Difficulties In Life

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

-Carl Jung

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Some say this is just an excuse for an idealist to reconcile the reality of difficulties and come to grips with it, all the while still being able to rationalize staying an idealist. But before the realist goes too far, the realist should realize this quote is mainly for him or her to come to grips with their own reality. This is because if we never had it difficult, how would we know the measure of things, what difficulty versus prosperity is?

How would someone who rose like a phoenix from the ashes know they rose from the ashes to new and soaring height, and then be thankful? Let’s go a step further…difficulties not only make us thankful and grateful but they also allow us to become stronger and better people than we thought we were.

The condition is that we rise above the difficulty and keep on moving forward in a positive direction. The way this is necessary for our health is mainly mental health…it’s a sanity check to remind us of what we must be thankful for and content with, and that we don’t ever forget where we came from ad what we have. The moment we lose this, along comes the next difficulty to remind us.

What to do with this famous saying:

Keep a constant attitude of gratitude and contentment. Yet I already hear someone asking, “but how do you reconcile this with strong and ambition?” I ask this because I myself have had and still do often have this very dilemma.

One day I finally figured out that ambition for the right reasons and at a reasonable pace with careful self control can be an ally, as long as one keeps an attitude of contentment nonetheless, every step of the way, and is able to lose it all and say “oh well, that’s the way it goes sometimes” and still be thankful without regret.

If you can at any time lose all material possessions but still be thankful you have life, liberty, freedom, family, friends and your health, even just one of these, then you have something more precious than all the things you had.

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Famous Sayings - Actions Speak Louder Than Words

"What you do speaks so loud, that I cannot hear what you say."

R.W. Emerson

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This is one of my favorites. Actions do speak louder than words. I think the best people to teach us this is our spouse and our children in particular. We may say something, but then ourselves do another. Then we wonder why they do as we do, rather than as we say. This is because what we do sets the example and the standard, not what we say.

If we can’t live up to our words, then our words are meaningless and we set a poor example. Also, if we decide to brag about what we do too much, or if we point all that we did do, then we may well be talking more that what we ought to be.

What to do with this famous saying:

Don’t ever ask someone to do something you wouldn’t have the courage or willingness to do yourself. Also, don’t ask someone to do something that you are a poor example of yourself, yet would blast others for being the same way. That’s just not fair and just not right.

Instead, be a person of few words and let your actions do all of the talking. This quote makes a great point, actions do speak louder than words…so loudly in fact, that you don't need to say a thing.

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Famous Sayings - The Value of Information

The value of information increases as the number of users of that information increase

-Unknown

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I believe this quote may have been stated by Bill Gates. He seems like the type of individual to make such a comment or create such a saying. This quote is a reflection on how something becomes more valuable when more people place value in the item…like money, gold or a diamond or even platinum.

In the information age, information has indeed become a valuable commodity, perhaps more valuable than anything tangible. Knowledge is more valuable than material things, and wisdom is most valuable and treasured above all.

Imagine knowing where gold or diamonds or oil were for certain. This information would be practically as valuable as the gold, diamonds or oil themselves if not more so, right? But the meaning of this quote goes even further. Imagine if information were the gold or oil itself…the very thing being sought or tapped into…is this not the case today?

If there were an organization that had much of this information, would it not be a very powerful entity? Everyone would seek the information, need it, value it, depend on it and use it. This reminds me of the internet…or of specific information on the internet, or perhaps a search engine or portal. These are the new gold and diamond mines and oil wells to be tapped. The more that people use and rely on these resources, the more valuable what they have to offer, becomes.

What to do with this famous saying:

Think for a moment in your life, your family’s life and even on your job about the impact information has. Perhaps it’s information about how to prevent getting diabetes, or how to prevent a disease. Would you say that’s more valuable than gold or diamonds? I say yes…I’d rather have my health any day than all of the money in the world. No amount of money can buy health or love, that much is certain.

Though it can buy a lot of things, just remember that information never buys money, but that money buys information and that information is what often gives the power to earn money in the first place. Information has truly become a new form of wealth. So let's respect the power and value of it, and not use it for idle purposes, shall we?

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