Age Quotes

Friedrich wilhelm nietzsche - when marrying, ask yourself this question do you...
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
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
Lyste
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.
William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 2 scene 2
The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.
Saint Augustine
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.
James Russell Lowell
Marcus aelius aurelius - never esteem anything as an advantage to you that...
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aidthem to judge for themselves.
William Ellery Channing
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
Whitney M. Young Jr.
Peter f. drucker, people and performance - management means, in the last analysis, the...
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Voltaire
You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.
Homer, The Odyssey
You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed, And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse. For Is and Is - Not though with Rule and Line And Up - And - Down by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, I Was never deep in anything but - Wine.
From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Translation by Edward Fitzgerald)
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.
Athenus
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
Joseph Addison
What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you... every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
Marquis de Sade
Adolescence is the stage between infancy and adultery.
Unknown
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
Joe Darion, "The Impossible Dream".
Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.
Marion Howard
Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.
Sri Madhava
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
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
Henry David Thoreau
Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
Beverly Nichols
Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.
George Bernard Shaw
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Charles Caleb Colton
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
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve
It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.
Samuel Smiles
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
W. Somerset Maugham
From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.
Visions of Gregorian Chants
From the age of six, I have known that I was sexy. And let me tell you it has been hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.
Bette Davis
For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.
Woody Allen
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
Van Wyck Brooks
Most people my age are dead at the present time.
Casey Stengel
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
Oscar Wilde
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