Age Quotes

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
W. Somerset Maugham
H. l. mencken - the older i grow the more i distrust the familiar...
Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.
George Bernard Shaw
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
It should be a very happy marriage - - - They are both so much in love with him.
Irene Thomas
Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.
Joe Gores
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole
Alan valentine - for thousands of years, father and son have...
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.
Louis K. Anspache
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Benjamin Disraeli
Augustine, (ad 354 - 430) - the world is a book, and those who do not travel...
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)
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
Becuase I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.
Emily Dickinson
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927
Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
David Ben - Gurion
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A. A. Milne
By courage I repel adversity.
Anonymous
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... it takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein
Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.
Clement Stone
The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.
Ben Harpe
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.
Eleanor Roosevelt
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - Gunpowder and romantic love.
Andre Maurois
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse
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
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
Author Unknown
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
Johann von Goethe
Age, health, and stage in life have nothing to do with serving or not serving. In each season of life there are attributes and qualities of life and experience that God values in service.
Bruce Kempe
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
Galileo Galilei
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
Henri - Frederic Amiel
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
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
Andrew A. Rooney
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
The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.
Alexander Haig
The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.
Wilson Mizne