Age Quotes

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Confucius

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife, Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life, Is worth an age without name.

Thomas Osbert Mordaunt

These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the devil.

Kara Vichko

Knowing that I am not the one in control gives great encouragement. Knowing the One who is in control is everything.

Alexander Michael

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

Arthur Schopenhaue

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Jane Austen

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

Albert Einstein

One man with courage makes a majority.

Andrew Old Hickory Jackson

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

Sydney Smith

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

Henry David Thoreau

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

Voltaire

It should be a very happy marriage - - - They are both so much in love with him.

Irene Thomas

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 27 - 04

England and America are two countries separated by a common language.

George Bernard Shaw

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Whoever controls the media - - The images - - Controls the culture.

Allen Ginsberg

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load. I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road. Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone, And transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone.

Gale Brook Burket

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

Red Skelton

Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Every women needs at least 4 animals. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass that pays for everything.

Paris Hilton

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

Cleveland Amory

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

Doug Larson

Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

David Ben - Gurion

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

Henri de Montherlant

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - - The things we live by and teach our children - - Are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Walt Disney

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

Maria Edgeworth

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

Voltaire

It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one from another; therefore, let all take heed as to the society in which they mingle, for in a little while they will be like it.

Rule of Life

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

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

Sir James Glove

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.

Firmianus Lactantius

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

Go around asking a lot of damfool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them.

Clarence Birdseye

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)