Age Quotes

Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.

W. C. Fields

Age is no guarantee of maturity.

Lawana Blackwell

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us put out more and better ideas if our efforts are truly appreciated.

Alexander Osborn

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.

William Franklin Billy Graham

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

Margo Kaufman

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Susan Taylo

For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

Lyste

The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.

Groucho Marx

I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget.

Charles Hamilton Aide

The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Thomas Carlyle, Proflies in Courage by: John F. Kennedy

Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.

Ben Harpe

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aidthem to judge for themselves.

William Ellery Channing

For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

Christopher Morley

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.

Bill Clinton, announcement of Next Generation Internet initiative, 1996

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournie

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

Hamilton Wright Mabi

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Groucho Marx

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Aristotle

Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.

Author Unknown

The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

Anatole France

Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

England and America are two countries separated by a common language.

George Bernard Shaw

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

War connot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the others advantage.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Courage mounteth with occasion.

William Shakespeare, King John, II. i

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

Martin Mull

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

Valerie Sokolosky

Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.

Luke Rhinehart

Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.

Oscar Levant

Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.

Claude M. Bristol

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

Henri - Frederic Amiel

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

Doug Larson