Age Quotes
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.Robert Burton
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?Logan Pearsall Smith
All my pupils are the crme de la crme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.Muriel Spark
Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.Alvin Toffle
The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies an accident going to happen.John Sloan Dickey
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.George Orwell
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.Virginia Woolf
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.George Herbert Walker Bush
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.Reinhold Niebuh
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.Andrew A. Rooney
The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003
When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - Say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - It is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.G. K. Chesterton
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - Every day begin the task anew.Saint Francis de Sales
Successful... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.Walter Lippmann
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?Elizabeth Cady Stanton, O Magazine, October 2003
Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don? t mind, it doesn? t matter.Satchel Paige
On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.Anita Loos
How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.Ovid
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.Johann von Goethe
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
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.Sydney Smith
It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.Tom Lehre
Experience becomes possible because of language.Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196
Now I shall return to my village and there will remain at the disposition of the nation.Charles De Gaulle
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.Andre Norton
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.Unknown
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.Unknown
Knowing that I am not the one in control gives great encouragement. Knowing the One who is in control is everything.Alexander Michael
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.Leo Tolstoy
Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field - work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.Robert Graves
Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate As we voyage along through life, Tis the set of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.Josef Stalin
One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.William Safire
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.Thomas Jefferson
Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing.Gyles Lytton Sitrachy
