Age Quotes

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

Larry Wall

Our first responsibility is not to build the Church or even to get souls saved - - It is to represent Christ and to bring His message to the world. As God beholds us in Christ, so the world must behold Christ in us. As Christ represents us before the Father, so we must represent Christ before the world.

Cornelius Stam

Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you.

Virgil

The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

Hermann Hesse

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

A. C. Benson

In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914)

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Johann von Goethe

Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill - Bred it is!

Catullus

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Maurice Chevalie

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

Billy Graham

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

Samuel Johnson

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

Sydney Smith

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Andrew A. Rooney

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

Cicero

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

Aristotle

Everyone is the age of their heart.

Guatemalan Prove

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving

Marriage love, honor, and negotiate.

Joe Moore

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

Charles Hamilton Aide

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

Groucho Marx

Thought Why does man kill He kills for food. And not only food frequently there must be a beverage.

Woody Allen

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

Lewis Thomas

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things Knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Amelia Earhart

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Benjamin Disraeli

Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college.

Tom Masson

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

Voltaire

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.

Sir Winston Churchill

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

George Santayana

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - Every day begin the task anew.

Saint Francis de Sales

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

Denis Diderot

Not every age is fit for childish sports.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

J. G. Gallimore

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Ansel Adams

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Samuel Johnson

Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Vicki Baum