Age Quotes
Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.Dr. Karl Bowman
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.Thucydides
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - Every day begin the task anew.Saint Francis de Sales
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.Sainte - Beave
One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.William Shatner as Kirk, in "Dagger of the Mind".
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.Samuel Johnson
The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon. Let others say his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig.Ogden Nash, "The Pig".
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.Mark Twain
To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.Eric Hoffe
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.Mark Twain
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.Stephen Hawking
If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.Alan King
Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.V? lcav Havel, parade, Times Picayune
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.Plutarch
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.R. D. Laing
Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.Trotsky
Be positive in addressing the envelope to your future, For enclosed are your efforts from the past. Be certain of the postage and double check what class.Unknown
Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.George Burton Adams
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)
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
We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.Alison Lurie
If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.Washington Irving
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.Samuel Johnson
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.Sophocles, Antigone
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.Benjamin Disraeli
America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.Evan Esa
Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance.David Pratt
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.George Bernard Shaw
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.George Bernard Shaw
Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity.W. Kelly Griffith
Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.Saint Francis of Assisi
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.Henri - Frederic Amiel
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence... too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.Thomas Jefferson
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.George Santayana
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.Calvin Trillin
