Age Quotes

Oscar wilde, , in a letter to his friend, frances forbes - robertson, who had invited him to her wedding in london, but wilde wa - like dear st. francis of assisi i am wedded to...
Doug larson - more marriages might survive if the partners...
Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict.
Paxton Blai
In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space.
Judith Stone
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole
I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you.
Paula Giddings
Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle
There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.
Samuel Johnson
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
Peter Who am I You sure you want to know The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied.
Spider - Man
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.
Sir William Arthu
The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.
Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
Seneca, Epistulae Morales
Consult your dragon before you wager his hide.
Melaine Rawn, Dragon Star 1: Stronghold
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.
Albert Einstein
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we... remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular.
Edward R. Murrow
It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
Woody Allen
The Dilbert Principle The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage - - Management.
Scott Adams
Walter scott - one crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age...
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Whitheead
There is no accident so disastrous that a clever man cannot derive some profit from it nor any so fortunate that a fool cannot turn it to his disadvantage.
La Rochefoucauld
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.
Thucydides
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.
Indian Prove
Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor Player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then is heard no more; It is a tall Tale, Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene V (MacBeth)
Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality - - Do whatever makes the most money.
Barry Schwartz
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
George Santayana
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
Hyman Rickove
Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
Samuel Johnson
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Carl Hermann Voss
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
Horace Greeley
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
Henry Havelock Ellis
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate we ask ourselves, Are these words true? If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate we ask, Are they necessary? At the last gate we ask, Are they kind?
Eknath Easwaran
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
Frederick Buechne
All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to chage the way you think.
Oprah Winfrey
The great leaders have always stage - Managed their effects.
Charles De Gaulle
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
Mark Twain
Politics should be the part - Time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
Lucille Ball