Age Quotes
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.Mary Daly
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies against despots - - Suspicion.Demosthenes
Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.H. L. Mencken
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
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations and suddenly find - At the age of fifty, say - That a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about... It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.Agatha Christie
We are all connected to everyone and everything in the universe. Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the whole. All thoughts, words, images, prayers, blessings, and deeds are listened to by all that is.Serge Kahili King
Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.Sir Walter Besant
Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.Mary Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, A Memoi
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.Arnold Bennett
He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent - Infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination - - And taxes.H. E. Martz
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
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.Douglas Pagels, A Wonderful Resolution For The New Year!
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
It used to take courage - - Indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence - - To leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home.Alvaro de Solva
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.La Bruyere
I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I detest life - Insurance agents they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.Stephen Leacock
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.Benjamin Disraeli
It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.Shaftesbury
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.Alphonse Ka
I have enjoyed greatly the second bloomingsuddenly you find - At the age of 50, say - That a whole new life has opened before you.Agatha Christie
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.Fyodor Dostoevsky
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.Aristotle
Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half - Shut afterwards.Benjamin Franklin
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.James Earl Jones
There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.Millicent Carey McIntosh
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.Samuel Johnson
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.William Congreve
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.Robert G. Ingersoll
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.Gloria Pitze
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.Roosevelt, Eleano
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.Thomas Fulle
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.Peter De Vries
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.Mark Twain
Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.David Ben - Gurion
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.Ambrose Redmoon
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.Henry James
