Age Quotes

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey.

Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown.

William Shakespeare

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

David Ben - Gurion

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

H. L. Mencken

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

Leszezynski Stanislaus

Playing football in the morning is like eating cabbage for breakfast.

Pressbox Maxim

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

Thucydides

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.

Phyllis McGinley

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Peggy Noonan

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

Robert South

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

Martha Graham

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

Steven Weinberg

I know some good marriages - - Marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

Erica Jong

I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in the making, but shall draw its materials largely from the annual produce of the fields.

Henry Ford, 1934

Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richte

All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.

Jim Fiebig

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

George Washington

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Johnson

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.

Ron Wild

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.

Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Stephen Hawking

Most men who are not married by the age of thirty - Five are either homosexual or really smart.

Becky Rodenbeck

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.

Eric Hoffe

Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. N. B. This quote is commonly misquoted as savage beast.

William Congreve

Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost - Benefit calculations.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself.

Franz Xavier Kroetz

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

Peter Ustinov

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

Clarence Darrow

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Plato

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Publilius Syrus

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Robertson Davies

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.

V? lcav Havel, parade, Times Picayune