Age Quotes
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.George Orwell
Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.Thomas Jefferson
In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food - Outside are only great stretches of freedom.Nicanor Parra
We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.Paul Valery
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.Nelson Mandela
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.H. L. Mencken
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1882
Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.J. Todd
Language study is a route to maturity. Indeed, in language study as in life, if a person is the same today as he was yesterday, it would be an act of mercy to pronounce him dead and to place him in a coffin, rather than in a classroom.John A. Rassias
Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.Dr. Karl Bowman
Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.Solon
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.Robert G. Ingersoll
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi
It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu
Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.Unknown
In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
This document describes the usage and input syntax of the Unix Vax - 11 assembler As. As is designed for assembling code produced by the C compiler; certain concessions have been made to handle code written directly by people, but in general little sympathy has been extended.Berkeley Vax/Unix Assembler Reference Manual (1983)
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such who are in the institution wish to get out and such as are out wish to get in.Ralph Waldo Emerson
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.Evan Esa
Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.Quentin Crisp
Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence.Margaret Halsey
Marriage is the wastepaper basket of the emotions.Leon Botstein
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.H. L. Mencken
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.Barnett Brickne
Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.Ambrose Bierce
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.Hellen Kelle
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly... I think - - Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it.Henry David Thoreau
A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain.Author Unknown
Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.Portuguese - Jewish Wedding Ceremony
It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.Homer, The Odyssey
One man with courage is a majority.Thomas Jefferson
What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful It is the simple things that make the difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self - Respect, and the courage of conviction.David L Boren
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.Lucille Ball
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone all leave it alone.Thomas De Quincey
My soldiers ask of me, why surrender a military advantage in the field... I could not answer.General Douglas MacArthur, His final address to the joint session of the congress
