Age Quotes
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.Saskya Pandita
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
On marriage Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.Estee Laude
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.Arthur Schopenhaue
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.Eleanor Rosevelt
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.Eleanor Roosevelt
The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.William James
The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.Ernest Hemingway
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 no to be feared.David Ben - Gurion
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.Charles Caleb Colton
Thought Why does man kill He kills for food. And not only food frequently there must be a beverage.Woody Allen
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.Arnold Toynbee
For want of self - Restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross - Grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self - Control.Smiles
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
You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.Voltaire
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.Sir Thomas Browne, 1642
Life without the courage for death is slavery.Seneca
In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.Lyndon B. Johnson
From the age of six, I have known that I was sexy. And let me tell you it has been hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.Bette Davis
Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.Jean Jacques Rousseau
No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.Ronald Reagan
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.George Eliot, Middlemarch
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.Paul Hawken, Growing a Business
The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other.Henry Kissinge
Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.J. G. Gallimore
Gossip needs no carriage.Russian Prove
Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions... that laws were like cobwebs, - - For that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.Laertius Diogenes
Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!Edwin Louis Cole
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.
Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.Sri Madhava
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.Dr. Joyce Brothers
I have three treasures. Guard and keep them: The first is deep love, The second is frugality, And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world. Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.Herbert Marshall McLuhan
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.Mark Twain
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.J. B. Priestley
Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity.W. Kelly Griffith
