Age Quotes

Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

James Madison, Federalist 10

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Harry S Truman

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Sir William Arthu

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

Henry Ford

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

The Net interprets censorship as damage... and routes around it.

John Gilmore

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

Seneca

Ours is the age of substitutes instead of language, we have jargon instead of principles, slogans and instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

Eric Bentley

The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.

Portuguese - Jewish Wedding Ceremony

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.

Benjamin Franklin

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day

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

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.

Phyllis McGinley

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Andr Gide

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Aldous Huxley

Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.

Erma Bombeck

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Publilius Syrus

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.

Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Matthew Arnold

My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.

Rodney Dangerfield

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Bertie Forbes

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

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.

J. K. Rowling

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

Keith Bostic

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

Vince Lombardi

Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language?

Ernest Thompson Seton

Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - Especially if he has a teenage daughter.

Guy Albert Lombardo

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus, Trinummus

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.

Clement Stone

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

H. L. Mencken

A specification that will not fit on one page of 8. 5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.

Mark Ardis

Thought Why does man kill He kills for food. And not only food frequently there must be a beverage.

Woody Allen

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournie