Age Quotes

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principle one was that they escaped teething.

Mark Twain

Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life.

Margaret Lowenfeld

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Horace Smith

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

Lewis Thomas

Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

A filthy mouth will not utter decent language.

Chinese Prove

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, The Way of Lao - Tzu

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Bertrand Russell

Politics doesn? t make strange bedfellows - - Marriage does.

Groucho Marx

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

Maya Angelou

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Albert Einstein

Age, health, and stage in life have nothing to do with serving or not serving. In each season of life there are attributes and qualities of life and experience that God values in service.

Bruce Kempe

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - And we will make the goal.

Jerome P. Fleishman

Management An activity or art where those who have not yet succeeded and those who have proved unsuccessful are led by those who have not yet failed.

Paulson Frenckne

Duty, then, is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.

Robert E. Lee

On stage, I make love to 25, 000 people, then I go home alone.

Janis Joplin

Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.

Rosenstock - Huessy

True love is not rare at the age of a teen, but recognizing it as true love is.

Brad Bell

Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.

Henry Adams

We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

Tom Stoppard, Rosencranz And Guildenstern Are Dead

Courage atrophies from lack of use.

Unknown

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Sir Thomas Browne

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

Unknown

Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

Henry David Thoreau

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

John Lyly

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Samuel Goldwyn

The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign.

George W. Bush, Speech (2005)

The Dilbert Principle The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage - - Management.

Scott Adams

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

Mark Hopkins, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

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

Judy Garland

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Carl Hermann Voss

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.

Henry Louis Mencken

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.

Leo Tolstoy

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

Unknown

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle - Aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

I. F. Stone