The young people think the old people are fools — but the old people know the young people are fools.
AGATHA CHRISTIEGood advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.
More Agatha Christie Quotes
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Fear is incomplete knowledge.
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Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can’t do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they’ve seen it often before.
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A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
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The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
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Until one looks back on one’s own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.
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If one sticks too rigidly to one’s principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.
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One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave – our own self. Get on good terms with that companion – learn to live with yourself.
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There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.
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Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.
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There are questions that you don’t ask because you’re afraid of the answers to them.
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I learned that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back – that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn’t it?
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As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.
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One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.
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Fiction is founded on truth unless things did happen, people couldn’t think of them.
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