Age Quotes
The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense.Author Unknown
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.John Irving, _The Cider House Rules_ (1985)
The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.Marcel Proust
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.Billy Graham
At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.Pearl Buck
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.Plato
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantages of others.Niccolo Machiavelli
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.Bertie Forbes
Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you.Virgil
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Net interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it.John Gilmore
You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed, And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse. For Is and Is - Not though with Rule and Line And Up - And - Down by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, I Was never deep in anything but - Wine.From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Translation by Edward Fitzgerald)
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals.Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A page of history is worth a pound of logic.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.Ansel Adams
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.Mark Twain
The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.Wilson Mizne
Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.Julie Arabi
In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Marriage is like a dollar bill. You cannot spend half of it when you tear it in two. The value of one half depends upon the other.Joe Moore
I believe in the institution of marriage and I intend to keep trying until I get it right.Richard Pryo
I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.Marilyn Monroe
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - Enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.Marcel Proust
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.William Blake
Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.General Robert E. Lee
Courage is one step ahead of fear.Coleman Young
It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate manner that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.Oscar wilde, Quoted in Ellmann
I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment - - But if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. A Tramp Abroad, 1880.Mark Twain
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle - Aged children for signs of improvement.Florida Scott - Maxwell
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - Gunpowder and romantic love.Andre Maurois
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.Albert Einstein
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - And friendless.Author Unknown
What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches?The Quarterly Review (England), March 1825
