Age Quotes
Marriage is the wastepaper basket of the emotions.Leon Botstein
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.Robert G. Ingersoll
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.Virginia Woolf
Music is the soul of language.Max Heindel
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
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776
Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other.James Grover Thurbe
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.Mark Twain
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.W. B. Yeats
To me - Old age is always ten years older than I am.Andre Bernard Buruch
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.Tom Stoppard
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.George Santayana
Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined....Leo C. Rosten
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.Sir William Arthu
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.W. Somerset Maugham
All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.Sun - Tzu
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.Author Unknown
The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - That is to triumph over old age.Thomas Bailey Aldrich, O Magazine, October 2003
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.Martin Luther King Jr.
I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever.Greg Proops
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.Alexander Clark
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.Alford
Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.Christopher Morley
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.Joan Baez
Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.Richard Milhous Nixon
Rigidly organized pre - School classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self - Image of marginality and failure.Valerie Polakow
Marriage is based on the theory that when man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go work in the brewery.George Jean Nathan
Peter Who am I You sure you want to know The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied.Spider - Man
I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.Charles A. Beard
Metric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight and measurement system, one world - All communist! We know the West was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile.Dean Krakel, Director of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.Joseph Conrad
Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.Oliver Wendell Holmes
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.Mark Russell
