Age Quotes
Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.Author Unknown
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.Rob Brown
The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980
People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them.Anatole France
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.Diane Ackerman
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.Henry Kissinge
Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.Henry David Thoreau
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.Casey Stengel
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
Political language - And with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.George Orwell, 1946
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.Charles de Gaulle
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.La Rochefoucauld
Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.Helen Rowland
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.Candice Bergen
Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.Dee W. Hock, Fast Company
Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.George Bernard Shaw
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.Dale Carnegie
Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.Trotsky
It takes a village to raise an idiot.William Dukane
What a new face courage puts on everything.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.Sir Thomas More
There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.Carol Matthau, O Magazine, October 2003
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager.William S. Burroughs
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.Author Unknown
Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.Harry S Truman
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941
I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.Oscar Wilde
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.Lewis Thomas
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.Plutarch
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear.Mark Twain
A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.Lao - Tzu
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.George Bernard Shaw
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.Jane Harrison
Age, health, and stage in life have nothing to do with serving or not serving. In each season of life there are attributes and qualities of life and experience that God values in service.Bruce Kempe
