Age Quotes
Me, we. Supposedly the shortest quote in the English language delivered at a Harvard graduation.Muhammad Ali
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.Samuel Johnson
He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.Ren G. Torres
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.Ronald Firbank
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.Professor Irwin Corey
If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.Alan King
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.Joseph Stalin
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.George Washington Carve
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
In youth we learn; in age we understand.Ebner - Eschenbach
I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever.Greg Proops
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.Denis Diderot
People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.William Bennet Munro
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.Hermann Hesse
Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinite variety other women cloyThe appetites they feed, but she makes hungryWhere most she satisfies.William Shakespeare
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.George Steine
There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.Lillian Eichler Watson
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.Abraham Lincoln
When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it.Lao Tzu
The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.James Taylo
Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.Mark Hopkins, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.Mark Twain
How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 1
Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.Alexander Clark
Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe
This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.George Will
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.Jewish Prove
Thirty - Five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty - Five for years.Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 3
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.Russell Green
The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.Abbe Guillaume Raynal
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, An Autobiography, 1977
There are two messages from theory of Karma. Our condition in this life is determined by our deeds in previous life. We must do good in this life to improve our conditions in next life.B. J. Gupta
But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief, The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight, Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.John Milton
No country can be described as free - But each has different degrees of bondage.Agatha Christie, Appointment with Death
Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.John W. Gardne
To hate a man because he was born in another country, because he speaks a different language, or because he takes a different view of this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human... Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity.John Comenius
The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.Author Unknown
