Age Quotes

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Pinda

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.

George W. Bush, September 7, 2003

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

Eric Hoffe

At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.

Benjamin Franklin

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager.

William S. Burroughs

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Brian Adams

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

William S. Burroughs

Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.

John Calvin

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - At the age of 50, say - That a whole new life has opened before you.

Agatha Christie

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

I know why the caged bird sings.

Maya Angelou, Quoting a lyric by Paul Laurence Dunba

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rigidly organized pre - School classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self - Image of marginality and failure.

Valerie Polakow

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

Voltaire

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

Lloyd Alexande

Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.

William A. Smith, 1908

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile nothing endures except the sense of difference.

Alan Valentine

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

E. Joseph Crossman

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Kim Hubbard

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Socrates, In "Apology, " sct. 21, by Plato.

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

J. Michael Straczynski

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

Larry Wall

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young men of this mealy generation the courage of their confusion.

John Anthony Ciardi

Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremble... for the Lord, your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or forsake you.

Bible, Deuteronomy 31: 6 NAS

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

Van Wyck Brooks

The great tragedy of science - The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

T. H. Buxley

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Samuel Goldwyn

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

Sydney Harris

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Brendan Francis Behan

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

Eleanor Roosevelt

He altered the image of the Jew from that of rabbi, merchant, wanderer, to that of scientist, farmer and soldier.

Shimon Peres

I am is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that I do is the longest sentence?

George Carlin

Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first - Class management.

Senator Soape

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

Sainte - Beave

Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.

Joubert