Age Quotes

What is important - what lasts - In another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.

Peter Brodie

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.

Ogden Nash

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age. As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Phyllis Dille

The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter.

Sir Winston Churchill

A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in which he resides, and for the true welfare of the society of which he is a member.

Johathan Edwards

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Confucius

If we want a love message to be heard, it has to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Mother Theresa

I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.

Lindsay Lohan

One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.

William Shatner as Kirk, in "Dagger of the Mind".

A crisis does not always appear to a policymaker as a series of dramatic events. Usually it imposes itself as an exhausting agenda of petty chores demanding both concentration and endurance.

Henry Kissinger, Years of Upheaval

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richte

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927

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, The Way of Lao - Tzu

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

James F. Clarke

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Thornton Wilde

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.

William Butler Yeats

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Gaston Bachelard

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth...

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

Daniel Boorstin

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

Eugene Debs

The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - - As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Phyllis

Removing the faults in a stage - Coach may produce a perfect stage - Coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

Edward De Bono

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

We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.

Eric Hoffe

An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

James Albert Michene

If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.

William Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night", Act 3 scene 4

The stream of thought flows on but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.

William James

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

Henry David Thoreau

True love is not rare at the age of a teen, but recognizing it as true love is.

Brad Bell

I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Leon Blum

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

Philip G. Hamerton, "The Intellectual Life".

Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age, but they die young.

Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value,

Walt Whitman

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.

Author Unknown

Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance the more we feel how much remains unknown.

Humphrey Davy