Mutual and Apt

Two for this First week of Advent - Happy Monday.

The old repeat themselves and the young have nothing to say. The boredom is mutual. - Jacques Bainville

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough. - Lord Chesterfield

Two handles

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present; the last is only the method of the first. - Henry Ward Beecher

Chill or ill

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness. - John Wanamaker

Looking ridiculous

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not. - Vaclav Havel

Until the heavens grow dark

Morality without religion is a tree without roots; a stream without any spring to feed it; a house built on the sand; a pleasant place to live in till the heavens grow dark, and the storm begins to beat. -  James B. Shaw

Born of Enthusiasm

Indifference never wrote great works, nor thought out striking inventions, nor reared the solemn architecture that awes the soul, nor breathed sublime music, nor painted glorious pictures, nor undertook heroic philanthropies. All these grandeurs are born of enthusiasm, and are done heartily. - Anonymous

Not rich enough

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor. - Danish Proverb