Age Quotes

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world - Art, or philosophy, or learning - Regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.

Freya Stark

Removing the faults in a stage - Coach may produce a perfect stage - Coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

Edward De Bono

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Mark Twain

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

Amanda Cross

Marriage is the wastepaper basket of the emotions.

Leon Botstein

There are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering.

Trevor Rook

I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Leon Blum

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

George Washington

For it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.

Alexander Hamilton

A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.

H. W. Dodds

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - At the age of fifty, say - That a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about... It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

Demosthenes

The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.

Oscar Wilde

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

George Sand

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.

Hannah Whitall Smith, 1907

Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.

Daniel Webste

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Augustine, (AD 354 - 430)

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richte

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Johnson

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

Ovid

In human relations a little language goes farther than a little of almost anything else. Whereas one language now often makes a wall, two can make a gate.

Walter V. Kaulfers, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

Hellen Kelle

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Benjamin Disraeli

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.

Israel Zangwill

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity so have some little frocks but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

Dorothy L. Sayers

All of the significant battles are waged within the self.

Sheldon Kopp

The stream of thought flows on but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.

William James

How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown.

William Shakespeare

Competition between individuals sets one against the other and undermines morale, but competition between organizations builds morale and encourages creativity.

Unknown

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Doug Larson

The most essential factor is persistence - The determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

James Whitcomb Riley

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.

Gloria Steinem