Age Quotes

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken.
Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing
One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.
William Safire
William shakespeare - when we are born, we cry, that we are come to...
The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether.
Steve Martini
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuh
Socrates - i decided that it was not wisdom that enabled...
A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Sir Walter Besant
Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it.
Johnson
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
Delmore Schwartz
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
Warren Bennis
Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself.
Franz Xavier Kroetz
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.
William Golding
Ansel adams - no man has the right to dictate what other men...
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
Plato
I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.
Marilyn Monroe
Courage is being scared to death - But saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
Margaret Mead
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
Voltaire
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.
George Saintsbury
Ours is the age of substitutes instead of language, we have jargon instead of principles, slogans and instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.
Eric Bentley
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - And we will make the goal.
Jerome P. Fleishman
I am about to put foward some major ideas they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely a few will in some sort, then, I shall have contributed to the progress of our age, and shall be content.
Marquis de Sade
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
Margaret Halsey
Man... is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill - Educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
Plato
Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
Ruth Gordon
It is about a socialist, anti - Family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Pat Robertson, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau
To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage.
Confucius Analects
Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age.
Johann von Goethe
Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
Alfred Victor Vigny
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey.
Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Kurt Vonnegut
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Kim Hubbard
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
Charles de Gaulle
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Stephen Hawking
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
Clare Booth Luce
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
Oscar Wilde
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
Sydney Harris