Age Quotes

I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.

Russell Bake

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Jane Wagne

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

William H. Mauldin

Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it.

Johnson

Go around asking a lot of damfool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them.

Clarence Birdseye

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Andr Gide

No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - - I mean the wages of decent living.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Helena Rubinstein

Middle age is when your age starts to show around the middle.

Bob Hope

Evil is a fact not to be explained away, but to be accepted and accepted not to be endured, but to be conquered. It is a challenge neither to our reason nor to our patience, but to our courage.

John Andrew Holmes

The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.

Andre Malraux

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Politics doesn? t make strange bedfellows - - Marriage does.

Groucho Marx

Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.

Jane E. Brody

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

Jeff Marde

Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.

Marion Howard

A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own.

Johann von Goethe

From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.

Visions of Gregorian Chants

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

Peter Cochrane

America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Evan Esa

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Charles Caleb Colton

For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.

Woody Allen

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

Baltasar Gracian

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Maurice Chevalie

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - - And in fact we have forgotten.

Euripides

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

George Bernard Shaw

Most comics make jokes to defend themselves against what they see as a hostile and inhumane world often a deeply felt rage.

Samuel S. Janus

In marriage, being the right person is as important as finding the right person.

Wilbert Donald Gough

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.

Thomas Higginson

Any new venture goes through the following stages: enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and decoration of those who did nothing.

Unknown

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so jointed that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Logan Pearsall Smith

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

Albert Einstein

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

Erma Bombeck

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Desiderius Erasmus