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Joseph Priestley - From the Aging category:
When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going. (Joseph Priestley)
Joseph Priestley - From the Communication category:
The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. (Joseph Priestley)
Joseph Priestley - From the Critics category:
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write. (Joseph Priestley)
Joseph Priestley - From the Genius category:
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire... (Joseph Priestley)
Joseph Priestley - From the Happiness category:
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness. (Joseph Priestley)
Joseph Priestley - From the Importance category:
Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever. (Joseph Priestley)
Joseph Priestley - From the Impossibilities category:
This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names. (Joseph Priestley)
Joseph Priestley - From the Listening category:
It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting. (Joseph Priestley)
Joseph Priestley - From the Magic category:
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning... (Joseph Priestley)
Joseph Priestley - From the Perfection category:
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch. (Joseph Priestley)
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