Age Quotes
Marriage should be a duet - - when one sings, the other claps.Joe Murray
The stream of thought flows on but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.William James
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity so have some little frocks but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.Dorothy L. Sayers
You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed, And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse. For Is and Is - Not though with Rule and Line And Up - And - Down by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, I Was never deep in anything but - Wine.From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Translation by Edward Fitzgerald)
Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.Thomas Jefferson
Some people think only intellect counts knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.Dean Koontz
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.Anita Brookne
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything.Vincent Van Gogh
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak.Francois La Rochefoucauld
In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.Vicki Baum
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 2 scene 2
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.Dr. Joyce Brothers
Courage mounteth with occasion.William Shakespeare, King John, II. i
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.Hermann Hesse
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.Jessamyn West
A self - Balancing, 28 - Jointed adaptor - Based biped; an electro - Chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62, 000 miles of capillaries....R. Buckminster Fulle
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.Albert Einstein
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.D. H. Lawrence
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.B. A. Billingsly
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.Coventry Patmore
An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon.Gerald R. Ford
We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.James Madison, Federalist 10
All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.Arthur Schopenhaue
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.Black Hawk
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.Ludwig Wittgenstein
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.Hamilton Wright Mabi
Removing the faults in a stage - Coach may produce a perfect stage - Coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.Edward De Bono
Courage is found in unlikely places.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.William James
Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.Oscar Wilde, , in a letter to his friend, Frances Forbes - Robertson, who had invited him to her wedding in London, but Wilde wa
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.Mark Twain
Old age is not a disease - It is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.Samuel Johnson
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.Mark Twain
Strength, courage and power do not exclude kindness, understanding and consideration. You can be strong and kind; you can be courageous and understanding; you can be powerful and considerate.Linda R. Dominguez, How to Shine at Work, (McGraw - Hill)
He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.Ren G. Torres
