Age Quotes

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Jewish Prove

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

Martha Graham

Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

George Bernard Shaw

Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky

For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

Joseph Stalin

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

There is nothing worse then a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Ansel Adams

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

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleano

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

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

Daniel Boorstin

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

Otto von Bismark

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

Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.

Gloria Steinem

One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our greed.

Author Unknown

The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The medium is the message.

Marshall McLuhan

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantages of others.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Sir Winston Churchill

Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.

Indian Prove

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Seneca

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

William Butler Yeats

A venturesome minority will always be eager to get off on their own... let them take risks, for Godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - That is the right and privilege of any free American.

16 Idaho Law Review 407, 420 - 1980.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

Clarence Darrow

The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - They have preservatives.

Calvin Trillin

Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

Kahlil Gibran

Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.

Julie Arabi

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

Doug Larson

The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'

Dorothy Parke

The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign.

George W. Bush, Speech (2005)

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Reinhold Niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

Charles Caleb Colton

The average, healthy, well - Adjusted adult gets up at seven - Thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

Jean Ke

I grow more intense as I age.

Florida Scott - Maxwell, O Magazine, October 2003

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Cyril Connolly

The scientific theroy I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

Mark Russell