Age Quotes

H. l. mencken - unquestionably, there is progress. the average...
Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin, so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that 45 between the teeth can get pretty strong at times, so why invite temptation.
Andrew Schneide
Miguel de cervantes - one man scorned and covered with scars still...
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.
Saint Augustine
Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.
Sri Madhava
BASIC - A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company.
Anon.
I hate middle age. Too young for the bowling green, too old for Ecstasy.
Ian Pattison, Rab C. Nesbitt, television series
A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.
John Ballantine Gough
When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things have their beginnings but the seed never explains the flower.
Edith Hamilton
It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
Sophocles
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.
George Du Maurie
The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other.
Henry Kissinge
Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half - Baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
Leszezynski Stanislaus
Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
Prince Otto
From the age of six, I have known that I was sexy. And let me tell you it has been hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.
Bette Davis
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing
Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.
Blaise Pascal
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - - And in fact we have forgotten.
Euripides
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
Pearl Buck
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
James Albert Michene
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such who are in the institution wish to get out and such as are out wish to get in.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two messages from theory of Karma. Our condition in this life is determined by our deeds in previous life. We must do good in this life to improve our conditions in next life.
B. J. Gupta
A filthy mouth will not utter decent language.
Chinese Prove
Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 27 - 04
We live by encouragement and die without it - - Slowly, sadly, angrily.
Celeste Holm
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.
Ellen Gilcrist
As A general rule, people marry most hapily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is.
Robertson Davies
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracian
Thought: why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only for food: frequently there must be a beverage.
Woody Allen, Without Feathers
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Rosevelt
Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.
Rosenstock - Huessy
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.
La Rochefoucauld
Middle age is when your age starts to show around the middle.
Bob Hope
Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
Bernard M. Baruch