Age Quotes

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
Mark Twain
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
Benjamin Disraeli
It is the responsibility of the sender to make sure the receiver understands the message.
Joseph Batten
Ralph waldo emerson - a man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...
We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato
If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.
George W. Bush
Thomas jefferson - question with boldness even the existance of a...
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
Ronald Reagan
Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is, but let us consider the two possibilities. If you gain, you gain all if you lose you lose nothing. Hesitate not, then, to wager that He is.
Blaise Pascal
The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.
Albert Schweitze
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.
Woody Allen, Without Feathers
Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.
Vicki Baum
Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
Henry David Thoreau
Pope pius xi - it violates right order whenever capital so...
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.
Author Unknown
The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Marriage should be a duet - - when one sings, the other claps.
Joe Murray
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
Booth Tarkington
Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.
Martin Luthe
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
In youth we learn in age we understand.
Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language.... We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a common goal of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.
Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
Democritus
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
Sir Thomas Browne
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Whoever has the greatest command of the language, holds the power.
Susan Johnson
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Victor Hugo
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.
Winston Churchill, Quoted in: Irving Klotz, Bending perception, a book review, Nature, 1996, Volume 379, p 412
Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
Richard Willard Armou
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.
Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto p. 74 (pb 93)
Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
Christopher Morley
Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
Harlan Mille
Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.
Calvin Trillin
The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Sir Harold George Nicolson
Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined....
Leo C. Rosten
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
Mark Russell
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.
William Shakespeare
We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.
Tom Stoppard, Rosencranz And Guildenstern Are Dead
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Albert Einstein