Age Quotes

Oscar wilde - the stage is not merely the meeting place of all...
George bancroft - beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite....
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
Quintilian
We must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage, and determination to succeed.
Rosalind Sussman Yalow
Henry louis mencken - the basic fact about human existence is not that...
A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
Max Weinreich
I believe that I shall see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord with courage be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord.
Psalm 27 13 - 14 Bible
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
George Bernard Shaw
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
Jimmy Breslin
The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
Lao Tzu
This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
Euripides
What is it the Bible teaches us? - Rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.
Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.
Janos Arnay
It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
Sophocles, Ajax
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Johann von Goethe
A self - Balancing, 28 - Jointed adaptor - Based biped; an electro - Chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62, 000 miles of capillaries....
R. Buckminster Fulle
The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.
Albert Einstein
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.
Oscar Wilde
From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty - Five, she needs good looks. From thirty - Five to fifty - Five, she needs a good personality. From fifty - Five on, she needs good cash.
Sophie Tucke
Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - If they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.
John Oliver Hobbes
Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom.
Greek Prove
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
Robert Oxton Bolt
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
Jean Anouilh
Whoever controls the media - - The images - - Controls the culture.
Allen Ginsberg
The average Ph. D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
J. Frank Dobie, "A Texan in England", 1945
I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages henceTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I - - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.
Agesilaus the Second
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 4 scene 3
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self - Distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.
Author Unknown
A different language is a different vision of life.
Federico Fellini
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
Jane Austen
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Mark Twain
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
Man... is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill - Educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
Plato
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
Corra Harris
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
John D. MacDonald
If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
French Prove
Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless, noisy baggage behind.
Jed Babbin, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense