Jacques Yves Cousteau Quote

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Mark Twain

Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.

Lucretius

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

Milan Kundera

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

Ingmar Bergman

• Hope

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

Anton Chekhov

Man - a being in search of meaning.

Plato

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Herman Melville

• Man

I always entertain great hopes.

Robert Frost

• Hope

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

• Hope
• Dreams

A man growing old becomes a child again.

Sophocles

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

Victor Hugo

• Man
• Art
• Artist

There's place and means for every man alive.

William Shakespeare

• Man

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

Ernest Hemingway

No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Man

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

Miguel de Cervantes

• Man

It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured.

Jeremy Irons

When you sing and people want that you sing, then you can hope to be great.

Andrea Bocelli

• Hope

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

Victor Hugo

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Euripides

• Hope
• Courage

More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.

Sean Connery