Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
- Sinclair Lewis - In Old Age
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
- C. S. Lewis - In Old Age
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People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'
- Sinclair Lewis - In Business
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
- C. S. Lewis - In On Change
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When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.
- Lewis B. Smedes - In Forgiveness
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You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
- Lewis B. Smedes - In Forgiveness
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It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.
- Lewis B. Smedes - In Forgiveness
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
- C. S. Lewis - In Friendship
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The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
- Lewis Mumford - In Government
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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
- Lewis Carroll - In Imagination
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
- C. S. Lewis - In Religion
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
- C. S. Lewis - In Religion
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The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
- Lewis Thomas - In Science
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The uniformity of earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled.
- Lewis Thomas - In Science
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The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
- Lewis Thomas - In Science
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I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
- Joe E. Lewis - In Sports
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Life is about timing.
- Carl Lewis - In Sports
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My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: "Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus."
- Carl Lewis - In Sports
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
- C. S. Lewis - In Time
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