Age Quotes
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.Anatole France
Age does not make us childish, as some say it only finds us true children still.Johann von Goethe
The great tragedy of science - - The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.Thomas Huxley
Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose - Garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind.T. S. Eliot
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.William Shakespeare
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.George Sand
Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.Unknown
The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence.Art Linklette
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.Mark Twain
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.Robert Benchley
A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages.Anon.
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.Carl Sandburg, New York Times Feb. 13, 1959
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.Erica Jong
The Stone Age came to an end not for a lack of stone, and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil.Zaki Yamani, (chief architect of OPEC)
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.Benjamin Lee Whorf
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.Jean Jacques Rousseau
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.William Shakespeare
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage.Sydney Smith
Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream - A scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows - Is essentially poetry.Jesse Louis Jackson
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
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.William Ellery Channing
Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.Richard Lovelace, To Althea from Prison
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.D. H. Lawrence
The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether.Steve Martini
Nature has perfection, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image.Blaise Pascal
To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.P. G. Wodehouse
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - Ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.Lytton Strachey
When one has nothing left to lose one becomes courageous. We are timid only when we have something left to cling to.Don Juan Matus, The Second Ring Of Power by Carlos Castaneda
When you have a child, the world has a hostage.Ernest Hemingway
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.W. Somerset Maugham
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.Titus Maccius Plautus, Trinummus
By courage I repel adversity.Anonymous
Every women needs at least 4 animals. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass that pays for everything.Paris Hilton
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.Ayn Rand
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.Aldous Huxley
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.Boutros Boutros - Ghali
