Age Quotes

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.

Gloria Steinem

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

Conan Doyle

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way throughout a thousand obstacles.

Washington Irving

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Henry Adams

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

Eleanor Roosevelt

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

Josh Billings

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

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle - Aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

I. F. Stone

Courage is not the towering oak That sees storms come and go It is the fragile blossom That opens in the snow.

Alice Mackenzie Swaim

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.

Sir Winston Churchill

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Augustine, (AD 354 - 430)

Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

BASIC - A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company.

Anon.

He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.

Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many.

Publilius Syrus

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything.

Vincent Van Gogh

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.

William Feathe

Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.

Hannah Whitall Smith, 1907

There are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering.

Trevor Rook

The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.

Saint Augustine

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others.

William Hazlitt

I grow more intense as I age.

Florida Scott - Maxwell, O Magazine, October 2003

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Mark Twain

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

Ovid

No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.

H. L. Mencken

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

Plato, The Republic

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

George Santayana

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

Sir W. Temple

The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.

Oscar Wilde

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.

Mark Twain

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

In human relations a little language goes farther than a little of almost anything else. Whereas one language now often makes a wall, two can make a gate.

Walter V. Kaulfers, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

Johann von Goethe

The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.

Kahlil Gibran