Age Quotes
An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.Hoshang N. Akhta
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
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.Maurice Chevalie
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.Abraham Lincoln
Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined....Leo C. Rosten
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.H. L. Mencken
We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears.John Ruskin
Dans ce pays - Ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. In this country England it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. from Candide.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.Miguel de Unamuno
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.Sir Thomas Browne, 1642
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.Thomas Higginson
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.Conte Vittorio Alfieri
Thirty - Five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty - Five for years.Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 3
The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003
The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.John Updike
The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses!Juvenal, Satires
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.Ralph W. Sockman
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.Francis Quarles
Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.George W. Bush
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations and suddenly find - At the age of fifty, say - That a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about... It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.Agatha Christie
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue - Fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.Norman Douglas
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.Lao Tzu
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927
The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.Richard F. Lovelace
On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.Anita Loos
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.Andrew A. Rooney
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.James F. Clarke
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.Roosevelt, Eleano
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.Dr. Joyce Brothers
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003
The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other.Henry Kissinge
Now I shall return to my village and there will remain at the disposition of the nation.Charles De Gaulle
Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.Author Unknown
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.Joseph Conrad
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.Henry Adams
