Age Quotes

Joachim du bellay - happy the man who, like ulysses, has made a fine...
Mark twain - training is everything. the peach was once a...
Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
Christopher Morley
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw
Becuase I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.
Emily Dickinson
What is it the Bible teaches us? - Rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.
Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.
Phyllis McGinley
Courage is not the towering oak That sees storms come and go It is the fragile blossom That opens in the snow.
Alice Mackenzie Swaim
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
It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.
Shaftesbury
All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.
Jim Fiebig
What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches?
The Quarterly Review (England), March 1825
Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self - Righteous isolation.
John Dewey
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
J. B. Priestley
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Victor Hugo
Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age.
Christopher Morley
At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.
Benjamin Franklin
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
Whitney M. Young Jr.
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One
Mark twain - in paris they simply stared when i spoke to them...
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
Walter Scott
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Sir Thomas Browne, 1642
Men are like wine some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Pope John XXIII
Most people go on living their everyday life half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi - Comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.
Albert Einstein
I know some good marriages - - Marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.
Erica Jong
The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism.
Norman Brenne
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
William H. Mauldin
Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Confucius
Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - - The things we live by and teach our children - - Are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
Walt Disney
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young men of this mealy generation the courage of their confusion.
John Anthony Ciardi
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.
Charles Schwa
My soldiers ask of me, why surrender a military advantage in the field... I could not answer.
General Douglas MacArthur, His final address to the joint session of the congress
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.
J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole
He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.
Johnson
Politics doesn? t make strange bedfellows - - Marriage does.
Groucho Marx
Never feel self - Pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Millicent Fenwick
Knowing that I am not the one in control gives great encouragement. Knowing the One who is in control is everything.
Alexander Michael
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.
Eric Hoffe
Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill