Age Quotes

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the faade of his appearance.

Jean Iris Murdoch

In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

Peter Drucke

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle - Aged children for signs of improvement.

Florida Scott - Maxwell

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong - - Because someday you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carve

Human beings are seventy percent water, and with some the rest is collagen.

Martin Mull

All of our dreams can come true - - If we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.

Victoria Lincoln

Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - If they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.

John Oliver Hobbes

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the others.

Miguel Cerbantes

Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.

Unknown

When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools.

William Shakespeare

If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

George W. Bush

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

Walter Ke

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

James Madison

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer, Time

Whoever said Marriage is a 5 - 5 proposition laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any other short sentence in our language.

Austin Elliot

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Plato

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

W. B. Yeats

Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

James Albert Michene

How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.

Ovid

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Joseph Roux

What a new face courage puts on everything.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.

William Pitt

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Kim Hubbard

Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.

Margo Kaufman

Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first - Class management.

Senator Soape

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything.

Vincent Van Gogh

There is one universal gesture that has one universal message - - A smile.

Valerie Sokolosky

The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.

Thucydides

It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A venturesome minority will always be eager to get off on their own... let them take risks, for Godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - That is the right and privilege of any free American.

16 Idaho Law Review 407, 420 - 1980.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1882

Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

Sam Rayburn