Age Quotes

the tragedy of life is not that we die, but is rather, what dies inside a man while he lives.

Albert Schweitze

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Paul Tillich

Not every age is fit for childish sports.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, Act 1 Scene 1

A filthy mouth will not utter decent language.

Chinese Prove

The shortage of student loans may require... divestiture of certain sorts - Stereo divestiture, automobile divestiture, three - weeks - At - The - Beach divestiture.

William John Bennett

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.

James Russell Lowell

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Muriel Spark

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original autho.

Philip G. Hamerton

Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.

Abraham Maslow

Someone asked Sophocles, How do you feel now about sex Are you able to have a woman He replied, Hush man most gladly indeed am I rid off it all, as though I had escaped from a mad and savage master.

Sophocles

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

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

Cicero

This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

Horace Walpole

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

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.

William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 2 scene 2

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.

Russell Green

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

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

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Sir Winston Churchill

Language is the dress of thought.

Samuel Johnson

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

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Robert Albert Bloch

I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.

Charles A. Beard

Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus (1922)

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.

E. F. Schumache

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Larry Eisenberg

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Maya Angelou

Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin, so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that 45 between the teeth can get pretty strong at times, so why invite temptation.

Andrew Schneide

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

W. Somerset Maugham

We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears.

John Ruskin

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

George Bernard Shaw

If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon