Age Quotes

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 scientific theroy I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

Mark Russell

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

Christina Baldwin

The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'

Dorothy Parke

On stage, I make love to 25, 000 people, then I go home alone.

Janis Joplin

We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally.

Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign ministe

To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.

Confucius

It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.

Sophocles

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

Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self - Righteous isolation.

John Dewey

American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.

George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.

Johnson

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

Homer, The Odyssey

Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Alexander Hamilton

If there be any truer message of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

Robert South

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucke

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.

Edmund Burke

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

Galileo Galilei

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface

If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind.

Don Marquis

I pay very little regard... to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

Calvin Coolidge

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

Jeremy Taylo

The vice - President of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.

Fred Allen

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.

Field Marshall John French

I detest life - Insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Stephen Leacock

Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.

Mark Twain

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

J. Martin Kohe

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Johann von Goethe

The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses!

Juvenal, Satires

Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high - Class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

Katharine Hepburn

It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one from another; therefore, let all take heed as to the society in which they mingle, for in a little while they will be like it.

Rule of Life

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson, Ziggy (comic)

Life is a tragedy when seen in close - Up, but a comedy in long - Shot.

Charlie Chaplin

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Carl Sandburg