Age Quotes

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Charles Caleb Colton

Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle Old Age a regret.

Benjamin Disraeli

We live by encouragement and die without it - - Slowly, sadly, angrily.

Celeste Holm

A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.

H. W. Dodds

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

Andre Maurois

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

A. Whitney Brown

The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things have their beginnings but the seed never explains the flower.

Edith Hamilton

When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it. Without the laugh, there is no Tao.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.

J. W. Alexande

Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken.

Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudne

Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.

Bias

They say that the wages of sin is death. But after taxes its just a tired feeling really.

Paula Poundstone, HBO stand - Up routine

I am part of the sea and stars And the winds of the South and North Of mountains and Moon and Mars, And the ages sent me forth.

Edward H. S. Terry

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.

Joe Darion, "The Impossible Dream".

Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.

George Du Maurie

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

Annie Dillard

All of the significant battles are waged within the self.

Sheldon Kopp

The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003

Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.

MG Siriam

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

George W. Bush, Speech (2005)

There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

Peter Drucke

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Jacques Deval

There is nothing worse then a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Ansel Adams

England and America are two countries seperated by the same language.

George Bernard Shaw

Legend a lie that has attained the dignity of age.

Henry Louis Mencken

At age 50, every man has the face he deserves.

George Orwell

Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.

Alford

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

H. L. Mencken

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas, Collected poems (1952)

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

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

Mark Twain

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.

Tom Stoppard

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.

Henry Adams

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

Vince Lombardi

Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn