Age Quotes
The Net interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it.John Gilmore
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.Benjamin Disraeli
Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.Agesilaus the Second
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.Eric Hoffe
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.Henry Adams
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity so have some little frocks but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.Dorothy L. Sayers
Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.Richard Milhous Nixon
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.Otto von Bismark
Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.H. L. Mencken
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
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
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.Charles Scribner, Jr.
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
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.George Orwell
The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.Kahlil Gibran
Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality - - Do whatever makes the most money.Barry Schwartz
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.Oscar Wilde
Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.Agesilaus the Second
Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.Joe Gores
Life is a tragedy when seen in close - Up, but a comedy in long - Shot.Charlie Chaplin
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.H. L. Mencken
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.Jean Cocteau
The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.Ernest Hemingway
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.Warren Bennis
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original autho.Philip G. Hamerton
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
I am years gone from my family and miles away... but they raid by telephone with jarring suddenness they have the cyclic constancy of a mortgage and they are inevitable and relentless, like the erosion of my remaining youth. Like certain frightening dreams, my family returns.Jerrold Mundis
For it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.Alexander Hamilton
Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field - work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.Robert Graves
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Dylan Thomas
Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin, so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that 45 between the teeth can get pretty strong at times, so why invite temptation.Andrew Schneide
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.Oliver Wendell Holmes
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.Horace Walpole
I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.Edmund Burke
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.G. K. Chesterton
