Age Quotes

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

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

Albert Einstein, quoted in New York Times, March 13, 1940

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

Homer, The Odyssey

Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many.

Publilius Syrus

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

Successful... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

Walter Lippmann

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Raymond Chandle

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Larry Eisenberg

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

Suffering. We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Anatole France

A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.

Max Weinreich

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way throughout a thousand obstacles.

Washington Irving

Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.

Richard Willard Armou

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

William Feathe

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

Pearl Buck

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.

Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988

I detest life - Insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Stephen Leacock

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age. As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Phyllis Dille

At age 50, every man has the face he deserves.

George Orwell

David I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being *crushed* by a *dwarf*. Alright That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.

This Is Spinal Tap

Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.

Marion Howard

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

Cicero

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

James Thurbe

In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food - Outside are only great stretches of freedom.

Nicanor Parra

I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages henceTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I - - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.

Josef Stalin

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Henry Ward Beeche

Courage atrophies from lack of use.

Unknown

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. : -

Larry Wall in

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

Benjamin Franklin

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money

There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

Samuel Johnson

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Charles Caleb Colton

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

Sam Rayburn