Age Quotes
No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.Clifford Bax
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.Sam Rayburn
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.Joseph Stalin
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
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.George Bernard Shaw
The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.Alford
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly... I think - - Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it.Henry David Thoreau
Carthago delenda est. Carthage must be destroyed.Marcius Porcius Cato
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.Miguel de Unamuno
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.Lucille Ball
Becuase I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.Emily Dickinson
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.Author Unknown
Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremble... for the Lord, your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or forsake you.Bible, Deuteronomy 31: 6 NAS
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.Babylonian Talmud, tractate Gittin
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.Fyodor Dostoevsky
How Kennedy knew the precise drop in milk consumption in 1960, the percentage rise in textile imports from 1957 to 1960 and the number of speeches cleared by the Defense Department is not quite clear, but anyway, he did. He either overwhelmed you with decimal points or disarmed you with a smile and a wisecrack.James Barrett Scotty Reston
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.Ronald Firbank
The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.Ernest Hemingway
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.Horace Greeley
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.Samuel Johnson
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.Annie Dillard
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.Edward De Bono
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.Thomas Jefferson
Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is, but let us consider the two possibilities. If you gain, you gain all if you lose you lose nothing. Hesitate not, then, to wager that He is.Blaise Pascal
I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.Russell Bake
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - - And in fact we have forgotten.Euripides
Money is the root of all evil, but the foliage is fascinating.Val Peters
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.Robert Francis Kennedy
All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776
I know some good marriages - - Marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.Erica Jong
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle - Aged men.Kin Hubbard
No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.Ronald Reagan
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 author?Philip G. Hamerton, "The Intellectual Life".
Political language - And with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.George Orwell, 1946
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.Jane Harrison
