Age Quotes
Courage is found in unlikely places.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.W. Somerset Maugham
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.Henry Ford
One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again.Judith Viorst
Men are like wine some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.Pope John XXIII
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.Ambrose Redmoon
These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the devil.Kara Vichko
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage - - It can be delightful.George Bernard Shaw
David I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being *crushed* by a *dwarf*. Alright That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.This Is Spinal Tap
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle - Aged men.Kin Hubbard
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.Mignon McLaughlin
There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.Oswald Mosley
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.Raymond Lindquist
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.Voltaire
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem - And in my esteem age is not estimable.George Gordon Byron
Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.Prince Otto
Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind - Folded fear.Thomas Jefferson
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - That is to triumph over old age.Thomas Bailey Aldrich, O Magazine, October 2003
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.Thomas Jefferson
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagne
During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - They neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.Imam Ali - Ibn - Abi - Talib, Nahjul - Balgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no1
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.Fran Lebowitz
Adulthood is the ever - Shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.Thomas Szasz
I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.Eleanor Roosevelt
I have three treasures. Guard and keep them The first is deep love, The second is frugality, And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world. Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.Lao Tzu
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.Robert Byrne
No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.Clifford Bax
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.Stanislaus
There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.Colette
Courage is being scared to death - But saddling up anyway.John Wayne
The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up at me as though I, too, were already caught a few feet above him in the strata and, in my turn, were staring upward at that strip of sky which the ages were carrying farther away from me.Loren
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.William Osle
Perhaps in time the so - Called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.Benjamin Disraeli
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - Ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918)
How Kennedy knew the precise drop in milk consumption in 1960, the percentage rise in textile imports from 1957 to 1960 and the number of speeches cleared by the Defense Department is not quite clear, but anyway, he did. He either overwhelmed you with decimal points or disarmed you with a smile and a wisecrack.James Barrett Scotty Reston
