Age Quotes
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.Pico Iyer, Time
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.Gaston Bachelard
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.Arnold Bennett
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.Mignon McLaughlin
No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.J. Lawton Collins
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.Samuel Johnson
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.Henry Louis Mencken
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa
Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life.Margaret Lowenfeld
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
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.James Madison, Federalist 10
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi
It used to take courage - - Indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence - - To leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home.Alvaro de Solva
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.Black Hawk
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution when the old and the new stand side by side... when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era This time... is a very good one...Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.Dean Koontz
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
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.Doug Larson
He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.Brendan Francis Behan
The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter.Sir Winston Churchill
Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.Ronald Reagan
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.Oscar Wilde
The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies an accident going to happen.John Sloan Dickey
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.Benjamin Disraeli
The vice - President of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.Fred Allen
My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.Peggy Noonan
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.Herbert Kaufman
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.John Quincy Adams
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
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.Joseph Conrad, Nostromo
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Courage is one step ahead of fear.Coleman Young
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.Ansel Adams
It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.Sophocles
