Age Quotes
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.Calvin Coolidge
Adolescence is the stage between infancy and adultery.Unknown
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.H. L. Mencken
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.Sir Thomas More
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.Gloria Pitze
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.Henry David Thoreau
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.Henry Havelock Ellis
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.Florence Shinn
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.Lao Tzu
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.A. A. Milne
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.Eric Hoffe
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.Mel Brooks
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.Thucydides
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1
Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.A. Whitney Brown
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.Bill Clinton, announcement of Next Generation Internet initiative, 1996
I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.Bernard M. Baruch, 1940
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.Miguel de Unamuno
Nature has perfection, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image.Blaise Pascal
It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.Homer, The Odyssey
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.Norman Douglas
Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance the more we feel how much remains unknown.Humphrey Davy
Playing football in the morning is like eating cabbage for breakfast.Pressbox Maxim
Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.Unknown
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.Henry Ford
Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.Mark Twain
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.Mark Twain
Time is the image of eternity.Laertius Diogenes
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.Friedrich Nietzsche
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.Muriel Spark
The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate we ask ourselves, Are these words true? If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate we ask, Are they necessary? At the last gate we ask, Are they kind?Eknath Easwaran
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.Brendan Francis Behan
Truth never damages a cause that is just.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.Author Unknown
Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may.Jack Holland
Did you exchange a walk - On part in a war, for a leading role in a cage?Pink Floyd, song "Wish You Were Here".
Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.Field Marshall John French
