Age Quotes

Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.

Johnson

Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life.

Margaret Lowenfeld

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

James Abram Garfield

A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.

Fontenelle

The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them - Thus preserving the system.

Quentin

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Horace Walpole

The Net interprets censorship as damage... and routes around it.

John Gilmore

The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.

Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first - Rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats.

Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

Joseph Stalin

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Seneca

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

Paul Johannes Tillich

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

Clark Gable, Gone With the Wind

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Bruce Barton

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

Henry Ford

My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.

Josh Billings

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.

Harry S. Truman

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.

Arthur Schopenhaue

Strength, courage and power do not exclude kindness, understanding and consideration. You can be strong and kind; you can be courageous and understanding; you can be powerful and considerate.

Linda R. Dominguez, How to Shine at Work, (McGraw - Hill)

What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you... every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.

Marquis de Sade

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.

Miguel de Unamuno

My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.

Rodney Dangerfield

Success is that old ABC - - Ability, breaks, and courage.

Charles Luckman

Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labelled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions.

W. J. Reichmann

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak.

Francois La Rochefoucauld

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Sophocles, Antigone

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.

George W. Bush, Speech to the United Nations, September 12, 2002

The world is disgracefully managed one hardly knows to whom to complain.

Ronald Firbank

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1, 000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

Carl Sagan

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

Joan Baez

Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language?

Ernest Thompson Seton

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists".

To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.

Russell L. Ackoff

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Edward De Bono

The stage lost a fine actor, just as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dr. John H. Watson, referring to Sherlock Holmes, in "A Scandal in Bohemia".

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carve

All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776