Age Quotes

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

Arnold Bennett

Saying we should keep the two - Party political system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.

Eugene McCarthy

We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally.

Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign ministe

Most comics make jokes to defend themselves against what they see as a hostile and inhumane world often a deeply felt rage.

Samuel S. Janus

The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self - Reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.

Henry Louis Mencken

I came from a disadvantaged home. They were Republicans.

Paul Tsongas, campaigning in New Hampshire

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Socrates, In "Apology, " sct. 21, by Plato.

If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time.

Benito Mussolini, The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism, 1935

Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labelled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions.

W. J. Reichmann

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

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Herbert Kaufman

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

Bias

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

E. e. cummings

To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Bernard M. Baruch, 1940

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

George Bernard Shaw

By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.

George W. Bush, Speech to the United Nations, September 12, 2002

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Ayn Rand

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

Jean Cocteau

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

Benjamin Disraeli

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - First to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Albert Camus

Becuase I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.

Emily Dickinson

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions.

George Carlin, Napalm and Silly Putty

Most men who are not married by the age of thirty - Five are either homosexual or really smart.

Becky Rodenbeck

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half - Shut afterwards.

Benjamin Franklin

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.

Erica Jong

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Baltasar Gracian

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Samuel Johnson

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.

William Feathe

One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again.

Judith Viorst

If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

George Bernard Shaw

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647

At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first - Rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats.

Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

William H. Mauldin