Age Quotes
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
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
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.Bruce Barton
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.Andre Maurois
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
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.Benjamin Disraeli
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.Sophocles, Antigone
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.Booth Tarkington
A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain.Author Unknown
It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate manner that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.Oscar wilde, Quoted in Ellmann
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.Charlie Chaplin
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle - Aged men.Kin Hubbard
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.Unknown
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.Sigmund Freud
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.Johann von Goethe
Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.Quentin Crisp
Courage changes things for the better... With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.Earl Nightingale
Any new venture goes through the following stages: enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and decoration of those who did nothing.Unknown
In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.Henry David Thoreau
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.Christopher Fry
I know why the caged bird sings.Maya Angelou, Quoting a lyric by Paul Laurence Dunba
I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.George Burns
There is one and only one social responsibility of business - To use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.Milton Friedman
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.Demosthenes, First Olynthiac
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003
I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.Leon Blum
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.Robert Albert Bloch
Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.Joe Gores
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.Eleanor Roosevelt
All marriages are mixed marriages.Chantal Saperstein
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies against despots - - Suspicion.Demosthenes
Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.Jane Harrison
The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses!Juvenal, Satires
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.Johann von Goethe
Courage is a special kind of knowledge the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.David Ben - Gurion
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.George Orwell
