Pope VI Quotes

"In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long."

"Any port in a storm."

"Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows."

"Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her."

"Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope."

"Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."

"If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms."

"I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother."

"The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune."

"Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people."

"A dimple on the chin, the devil within."

"Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest."

"We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice."