Age Quotes
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.John Howe
Meetings are an addictive, highly self - Indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.Alain van der Heide
Benson, you are so free of the ravages of intelligence.Time Bandits
Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about but evermore Came out by the same Door as in I went.Omar Khayym
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.Brian Adams
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth...J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince
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
Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinite variety other women cloyThe appetites they feed, but she makes hungryWhere most she satisfies.William Shakespeare
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.Maya Angelou
Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict.Paxton Blai
When you have a child, the world has a hostage.Ernest Hemingway
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.John Irving, _The Cider House Rules_ (1985)
Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.Herbert Marshall McLuhan
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.Harry S. Truman
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.Lyndon B. Johnson
The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aidthem to judge for themselves.William Ellery Channing
There is one universal gesture that has one universal message - - A smile.Valerie Sokolosky
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.John Simon
He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent - Infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination - - And taxes.H. E. Martz
I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long - Established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.Henry Besseme
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
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.Henry Ford
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.Eric Hoffer, "The True Believer", 1951
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.Henry Ford
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.Russell Green
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.Noah Webste
Be strong and of good courage be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.Joshua 19 Bible
At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first - Rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats.Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.Dean Koontz
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.Johnson
I came from a disadvantaged home. They were Republicans.Paul Tsongas, campaigning in New Hampshire
It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!Richard Jeni
