Age Quotes

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.

Indian Prove

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.

Joseph Conrad, Nostromo

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Henry David Thoreau

Many people have died for their beliefs? The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.

Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon.

Courage changes things for the better... With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.

Earl Nightingale

The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.

Johnson

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.

George Santayana

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

William Golding

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

A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Sir Walter Besant

That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

Thomas Carlyle

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution when the old and the new stand side by side... when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era This time... is a very good one...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination.

Mark Twain

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.

John W. Gardne

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Management An activity or art where those who have not yet succeeded and those who have proved unsuccessful are led by those who have not yet failed.

Paulson Frenckne

Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

George Bernard Shaw

A specification that will not fit on one page of 8. 5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.

Mark Ardis

When marrying, ask yourself this question Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

Theodore Harold White

To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Bernard M. Baruch, 1940

Courageous risks are life - Giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.

Joan L. Curcio

He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - Cynical, but hopeful.

Dame Rose Macaulay, Crewe Train, 1926

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.

John Simon

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... it takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Reinhold Niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

W. B. Yeats

Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Bernard M. Baruch

Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other.

James Grover Thurbe

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Confucius

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.

Henry David Thoreau

I think on - Stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

Shelley Winters

Carthago delenda est. Carthage must be destroyed.

Marcius Porcius Cato

One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children - - Unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide - And - Seek.

Bill Cosby, Time Flies

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

Lily Tomlin

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self - Esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

Fritz Perls

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

Oscar Wilde