Age Quotes
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.Dean Koontz
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.W. Somerset Maugham
Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward.John Mortimer, The Observer (1999)
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 first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.Ernest Hemingway
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.Josh Billings
Successful... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.Walter Lippmann
There is one and only one social responsibility of business - To use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.Milton Friedman
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.Sydney Harris
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young men of this mealy generation the courage of their confusion.John Anthony Ciardi
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.Evan Esa
To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.Confucius
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.Victor Hugo
Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.Henry David Thoreau
The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.Albert Einstein
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak.Francois La Rochefoucauld
When in doubt, do the courageous thing.Jan Smuts
The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.Wilson Mizne
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.Sir Winston Churchill
It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.Benjamin Disraeli
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.Coventry Patmore
The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up at me as though I, too, were already caught a few feet above him in the strata and, in my turn, were staring upward at that strip of sky which the ages were carrying farther away from me.Loren
I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.Marilyn Monroe
The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate we ask ourselves, Are these words true? If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate we ask, Are they necessary? At the last gate we ask, Are they kind?Eknath Easwaran
For want of self - Restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross - Grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self - Control.Smiles
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.H. L. Mencken
The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter.Sir Winston Churchill
Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.Claude M. Bristol
At age 50, every man has the face he deserves.George Orwell
The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.Author Unknown
How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 1
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Dylan Thomas, Collected poems (1952)
Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less.Robert E. Lee
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.Saint Augustine
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth...J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.Albert Einstein
