Age Quotes

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

Sir W. Temple

Having a thirteen - Year - Old in the family is like having a general - Admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen - Agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

Max Lerne

One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.

William Shatner as Kirk, in "Dagger of the Mind".

For want of self - Restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross - Grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self - Control.

Smiles

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.

Ogden Nash

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

George Herbert Walker Bush

Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.

Sir Walter Besant

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

Robert Burton

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

Many people have died for their beliefs? The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.

Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon.

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

Judy Garland

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

Wilbert Donald Gough

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, We shall remember them.

Laurence Binyen

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

John Simon

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, O Magazine, October 2003

The great tragedy of science - - The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Thomas Huxley

Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self - Distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.

Author Unknown

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

Professor Irwin Corey

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.

Alexander Hamilton

Question with boldness even the existance of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

Van Wyck Brooks

That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournie

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.

Barnett Brickne

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Napoleon Bonaparte

We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

Maxwell Maltz

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Author Unknown

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.

Wystan Hugh Auden

Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Woody Allen

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

The vice - President of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.

Fred Allen

Money is the root of all evil, but the foliage is fascinating.

Val Peters

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

John Updike

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.

George Burton Adams

A page of history is worth a pound of logic.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech