Age Quotes

God pays, but not weekly wages.

Polish Prove

Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.

Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon

Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.

Rosenstock - Huessy

To me - Old age is always ten years older than I am.

Andre Bernard Buruch

Old age is not a disease - It is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Samuel Johnson

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

Norman Douglas

Duty, then, is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.

Robert E. Lee

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

Vicki Baum

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

Felix Adle

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Raymond Chandle

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Robert Louis Stevenson

There is one and only one social responsibility of business - To use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

Milton Friedman

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

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

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

William Shakespeare

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - They have preservatives.

Calvin Trillin

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

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Eric Hoffe

When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools.

William Shakespeare

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

Voltaire

We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.

Aldous Huxley

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

Cicero

It is easier to talk about money - - And much easier to talk about sex - - Than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.

Smiley Blanton

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

James Thurbe

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Peter Drucke

The truth of the matter is that window management under X is not yet well understood.

The "Xlib Programming Manual".

How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.

Black Hawk

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

Roland Barthes, Esprit

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Alfred North Whitehead

All of our dreams can come true - - If we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Richard Bach

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Benjamin Disraeli

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

Plato

Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids.

Tim Bedore