Age Quotes
Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.Julian Weber Gordon
It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Life without the courage for death is slavery.Seneca
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
We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.Alison Lurie
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles.. by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.Mark Twain
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.Paul Hawken, Growing a Business
The people that one bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses.Juvenal
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager.William S. Burroughs
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
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.Baltasar Gracian
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we... remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular.Edward R. Murrow
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.Fyodor Dostoevsky
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.Fran Lebowitz
There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.Colette
Courage is grace under pressure.Ernest Hemingway
There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.Woody Allen
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.Russell Green
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.Oliver Wendell Holmes
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.Corra Harris
No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.H. L. Mencken
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, 1697, act III scene 8
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.Desiderius Erasmus
The scars you acquire by exercising courage, Will never make you feel inferior.D. A. Battista
The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.Vilhjlmur Stefnsson
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
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence... too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.Thomas Jefferson
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.J. B. Priestley
If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind.Don Marquis
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.Sir Winston Churchill
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.Andre Norton
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.Ben Harpe
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.Henry Louis Mencken
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.George Bernard Shaw
Count your life by smiles, not tears. Count your age by friends, not years.Unknown
The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self - Reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.Henry Louis Mencken
