Age Quotes

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Helena Rubinstein

We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.

Aldous Huxley

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

Lily Tomlin

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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

V? lcav Havel, parade, Times Picayune

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

Doug Larson

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

It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Matthew Arnold

You will have more fun on your vacation if you maintain a mental age of 18 or less. Act just old enough to make your travel connections and stay out of trouble.

Joe Schwartz

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.

Israel Zangwill

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world - Art, or philosophy, or learning - Regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.

Freya Stark

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Peter Drucke

I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue - Fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.

Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

Walter Ke

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

Malcolm Muggeridge

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people.

Unknown

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

Robert Benchley

Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

George Bernard Shaw

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Ayn Rand

Pathos, piety, courage, ? they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, 1924

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

George Will

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Henry Louis Mencken

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

Diane Ackerman

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Joseph Roux

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

Conan Doyle

If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

George W. Bush

Courage may be taught as a child is taught to speak.

Euripides

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

Arthur Schopenhaue

When in doubt, do the courageous thing.

Jan Smuts

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carve

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

Samuel Johnson

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half - Shut afterwards.

Benjamin Franklin

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.

Clement Stone

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

Larry Wall