Age Quotes

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas, Collected poems (1952)

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Confucius

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It should be a very happy marriage - - - They are both so much in love with him.

Irene Thomas

Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost - Benefit calculations.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward.

John Mortimer, The Observer (1999)

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.

William Pitt

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein, (attributed)

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Herbert Kaufman

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

Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

James Madison

Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions... that laws were like cobwebs, - - For that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.

Laertius Diogenes

Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance.

David Pratt

For it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.

Alexander Hamilton

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.

Francis Bacon

Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.

H. L. Mencken

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

Peter Ustinov

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.

Kahlil Gibran

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Cicero

I pay very little regard... to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Language study is a route to maturity. Indeed, in language study as in life, if a person is the same today as he was yesterday, it would be an act of mercy to pronounce him dead and to place him in a coffin, rather than in a classroom.

John A. Rassias

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Frances Rodman

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

Dr. Dale E. Turne

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.

William Franklin Billy Graham

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Lloyd Alexande

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Lucille Ball

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.

General Colin Powell

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

Plutarch

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

Dr. Karl Bowman

Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.

Stephen Jay Gould

On marriage Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.

Estee Laude

This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what youre doing, or it comes out flat. You cant fake your way through this.

Real Live Preache

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon