Age Quotes

Thomas osbert mordaunt - sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife,...
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
Lee Iacocca
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Mark Twain
Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremble... for the Lord, your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or forsake you.
Bible, Deuteronomy 31: 6 NAS
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong - - Because someday you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carve
J. lawton collins - no matter how brilliant a man may be, he will...
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
Doug Larson
People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them.
Anatole France
Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.
C. C. Colton
Hannah whitall smith, 1907 - let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as...
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
The Stone Age came to an end not for a lack of stone, and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil.
Zaki Yamani, (chief architect of OPEC)
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
Voltaire
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, Julius Caesa
Age is no guarantee of maturity.
Lawana Blackwell
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
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
Jimmy Breslin
It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
Sophocles, Ajax
Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.
Henry Adams
Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.
Margo Kaufman
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage.
Sydney Smith
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
Thornton
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
Joe Darion, "The Impossible Dream".
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
Eric Hoffe
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
Henry Ford
It marriage happens as with cages the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to getting out.
D. A. Battista
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
Alexander Hamilton
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Bertrand Russell
On that day let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that all their efforts shall not have been in vain.
Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read.
Mark Twain
Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.
Johnson
The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.
Abbe Guillaume Raynal
Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose Bierce
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.
Henry Louis Mencken
Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Thomas Carlyle, Proflies in Courage by: John F. Kennedy
Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
John Kenneth Galbraith