Age Quotes

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

Samuel Johnson

The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

Sir Harold George Nicolson

I believe in the institution of marriage and I intend to keep trying until I get it right.

Richard Pryo

Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.

Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Arnold Toynbee

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

Kahlil Gibran

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

For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.

Woody Allen

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter Drucke

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.

Henry David Thoreau

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our common language is... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non - English - Speaking children learn this common language.

William John Bennett

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

Charles Scribner, Jr.

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.

Mark Twain

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Henry David Thoreau

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.

Robert Brault

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force...

Peter F. Drucker, People and Performance

The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.

Portuguese - Jewish Wedding Ceremony

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Samuel Goldwyn

I speak BASIC to clients, 1 - 2 - 3 to management, and mumble to myself.

Anon.

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don? t mind, it doesn? t matter.

Satchel Paige

By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn.

Blaise Pascal

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

Democritus

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - Ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

Lytton Strachey

Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination.

Mark Twain

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

Robert Oxton Bolt

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitheead

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

Trevor Rook

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

Courage in danger is half the battle.

Titus Plautus

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

In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space.

Judith Stone

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

Martin Mull

We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato