Age Quotes
English is the easiest language to speak badly.George Bernhard Shaw
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
Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.Abraham Maslow
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.Robert Frost
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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 man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - And friendless.Author Unknown
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.Paul Valery
A specification that will not fit on one page of 8. 5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.Mark Ardis
There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.Carol Matthau, O Magazine, October 2003
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - And to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.Karl von Bonstetten
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.Charles Caleb Colton
Most people my age are dead at the present time.Casey Stengel
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.Benjamin Disraeli
Comedy is tragedy plus time.Carol Burnett
The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.Albert Einstein
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.Horace Smith
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.W. Somerset Maugham
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.George Bernard Shaw
Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.Mary Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, A Memoi
Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.John W. Gardne
People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them.Anatole France
Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably togethe.Clyde Kluckhohn
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".
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.Horace Walpole
Courageous risks are life - Giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.Joan L. Curcio
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.Daniel Webste
No man is truly great, who is great only in his life - Time. The test of greatness is the page of history.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.William Congreve
The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.Alexander Haig
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.William S. Burroughs
Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not. knows no release from little things.Amelia Earhart Putnam
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
True love is not rare at the age of a teen, but recognizing it as true love is.Brad Bell
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.Thomas Bailey Aldrich
