Age Quotes

Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.
John Calvin
Henry david thoreau - most men would feel insulted if it were proposed...
Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less.
Robert E. Lee
Me, we. Supposedly the shortest quote in the English language delivered at a Harvard graduation.
Muhammad Ali
According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.
Charles Richte
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
G. K. Chesterton
The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.
Saint Augustine
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
James F. Clarke
Wilson mizne - the days just prior to marriage are like a snappy...
Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
Oscar Wilde
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill - Advised marriages than from virginity.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
I think on - Stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.
Shelley Winters
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
Annie Dillard
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
Whoever has the greatest command of the language, holds the power.
Susan Johnson
When marrying, ask yourself this question Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Jay leno - give a man a fish and he will eat for a day....
My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.
Peggy Noonan
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Carl Hermann Voss
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny
Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.
George W. Bush
Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.
Agesilaus the Second
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Andr Gide
Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.
Henri de Montherlant
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
Francis Quarles
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.
Henry David Thoreau
The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence.
Art Linklette
Good leadership consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefelle
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.
Arthur Schopenhaue
The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
Lao Tzu
Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.
Bias
Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H. L. Mencken
Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.
Phillip Chesterfield
High thoughts must have high language.
Aristophanes, Frogs, 405 B. C.
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
Unknown
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
The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.
Sri da Avabhas
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
Ebner - Eschenbach
The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters.
Rachel Blanchard