Age Quotes
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.Anonymous
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.Benjamin Disraeli
Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.H Hahn Blavatsky
Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Me, we. Supposedly the shortest quote in the English language delivered at a Harvard graduation.Muhammad Ali
Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.Mark Twain
Silence will not betray your thoughts but the expression on your face will. Humor has a hundred faces tragedy only a few.H. G. Mendelson
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.Henry Ford
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.Doug Larson
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
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.La Rochefoucauld
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.George Santayana
Perhaps in time the so - Called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.John Quincy Adams
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.Marcel Proust
I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.Lindsay Lohan
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.Eleanor Roosevelt
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.Johann von Goethe
Man... is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill - Educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.Plato
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.Plato
A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own.Johann von Goethe
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.Lucille Ball
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.Thomas Troward
On that day let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that all their efforts shall not have been in vain.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.Alexander Haig
We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.Harry S. Truman
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.Pearl Buck
American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly... I think - - Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it.Henry David Thoreau
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
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
The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.William Congreve
