Age Quotes

Voltaire - you despise books you whose lives are absorbed in...
Alvaro de solva - it used to take courage - - indeed, it was the...
From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty - Five, she needs good looks. From thirty - Five to fifty - Five, she needs a good personality. From fifty - Five on, she needs good cash.
Sophie Tucke
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
Arnold Bennett
It is the responsibility of the sender to make sure the receiver understands the message.
Joseph Batten
A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.
H. W. Dodds
Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
David Ben - Gurion
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.
Robert Francis Kennedy
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Maya Angelou
Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.
Joubert
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
The wine seems to be very closed - In and seems to have entered a dumb stage. Sort of a Marcel Meursault.
Paul S. Winalski
Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.
MG Siriam
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas
In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over - Organized generation of youngsters in our history.
Eda J. Le Shan
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
Sir Thomas Browne
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole
How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown.
William Shakespeare
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
Roosevelt, Eleano
Lao tzu - the sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but...
Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.
Red Skelton
The Net interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it.
John Gilmore
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to chage the way you think.
Oprah Winfrey
Silence will not betray your thoughts but the expression on your face will. Humor has a hundred faces tragedy only a few.
H. G. Mendelson
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Paul Tillich
Our government sprang from and was made for the people - - Not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.
Andrew Johnson
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.
Walter Lippmann
Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.
Helen Rowland
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
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
George Santayana
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
John D. MacDonald
On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.
Anita Loos
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
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.
Sir James Glove
One man with courage makes a majority.
Andrew Old Hickory Jackson
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 will not forget you.
William Arthur Ward
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
One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, German Ideology, Chapter 3
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone all leave it alone.
Thomas De Quincey