Age Quotes

Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Whoever controls the media - - The images - - Controls the culture.

Allen Ginsberg

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so jointed that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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, Eminent Victorians (1918)

The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.

Andre Malraux

The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter.

Sir Winston Churchill

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.

Gilda Radne

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.

William Shakespeare

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm - Blooded to fall into this vice.

Abraham Lincoln

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Evan Esa

There is no accident so disastrous that a clever man cannot derive some profit from it nor any so fortunate that a fool cannot turn it to his disadvantage.

La Rochefoucauld

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.

Francois de Fenelon

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, - All duties even.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Josh Billings

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

Richard Lovelace, To Althea from Prison

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

Heywood

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

Jeff Marde

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

Raymond Lindquist

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

Hellen Kelle

Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

H. Mumford Jones

We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Benjamin Disraeli

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Edward De Bono

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.

John Lancaster Spalding

By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.

George W. Bush, Speech to the United Nations, September 12, 2002

Courage conquers all things.

Ovid

Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.

Indian Prove

My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.

Rodney Dangerfield

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The most essential factor is persistence - The determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

James Whitcomb Riley

Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.

J. Todd

What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful It is the simple things that make the difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self - Respect, and the courage of conviction.

David L Boren

An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.

Hoshang N. Akhta

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

George Carlin

Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is, but let us consider the two possibilities. If you gain, you gain all if you lose you lose nothing. Hesitate not, then, to wager that He is.

Blaise Pascal

It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.

George Steine

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.

Dorothy Thompson