Age Quotes

If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time.

Benito Mussolini, The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism, 1935

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

Larry Wall

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

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity so have some little frocks but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.

Mary Anne Radmache

Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.

Keith Bostic

I am about to put foward some major ideas they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely a few will in some sort, then, I shall have contributed to the progress of our age, and shall be content.

Marquis de Sade

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

Courage atrophies from lack of use.

Unknown

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.

Erica Jong

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!

Joachim Du Bellay, Sonnet de Regrets

This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you? re doing, or it comes out flat. You can? t fake your way through this.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 29, 2004

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

We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.

C. C. Colton

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.

Joseph Stalin

Suffering. We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Anatole France

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.

Camille Paglia

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.

George Santayana, Dialogues in Limbo (1925) ch. 3

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

Ernest Hemingway

High thoughts must have high language.

Aristophanes, Frogs, 405 B. C.

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

Dan Quayle

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

William James

A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.

Jacques Maritain

The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon. Let others say his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig.

Ogden Nash, "The Pig".

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

Walter Ke

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

Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.

George Du Maurie

Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Stephen Covey

It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

Richard Jeni

Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.

Demosthenes, First Olynthiac

Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.

Joe Gores

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer, Time

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

Charles Scribner, Jr.

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

Sam Rayburn