Age Quotes
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.Florence Shinn
All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.Sun - Tzu
Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.Prince Otto
Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose - Garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind.T. S. Eliot
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)
That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.Paul Tournie
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - Ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918)
Our common language is... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non - English - Speaking children learn this common language.William John Bennett
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force...Peter F. Drucker, People and Performance
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
No country can be described as free - But each has different degrees of bondage.Agatha Christie, Appointment with Death
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.Abraham Lincoln
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we... remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular.Edward R. Murrow
Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - If they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.John Oliver Hobbes
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - At the age of 50, say - That a whole new life has opened before you.Agatha Christie
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.R. D. Laing
There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.Alfred Adle
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.John Lyly
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.Henry David Thoreau
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.Paul Tillich
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.Horace Walpole
Truth never damages a cause that is just.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.Carol Matthau, O Magazine, October 2003
Benson, you are so free of the ravages of intelligence.Time Bandits
The world is disgracefully managed one hardly knows to whom to complain.Ronald Firbank
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.George Carlin
We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.Aldous Huxley
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language?Ernest Thompson Seton
Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not. knows no release from little things.Amelia Earhart Putnam
The great tragedy of science - The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.T. H. Buxley
Management An activity or art where those who have not yet succeeded and those who have proved unsuccessful are led by those who have not yet failed.Paulson Frenckne
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principle one was that they escaped teething.Mark Twain
Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.Henry Adams
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.Robert Byrne
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.Christopher Fry
