Age Quotes

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Carl Hermann Voss

Pathos, piety, courage, ? they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, 1924

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

French Prove

In producers, loafing is productive and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.

Jacques Martin Barzun

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age, but they die young.

Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Henry Louis Mencken

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.

William Pitt

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

It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

Van Wyck Brooks

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

Denis Diderot

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell

Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Woody Allen

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.

Dorothy Thompson

Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.

J. Todd

I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages henceTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I - - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu

There are two messages from theory of Karma. Our condition in this life is determined by our deeds in previous life. We must do good in this life to improve our conditions in next life.

B. J. Gupta

The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever.

Greg Proops

The Stone Age came to an end not for a lack of stone, and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil.

Zaki Yamani, (chief architect of OPEC)

Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.

James Rippe, M. D.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Muriel Spark

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

Arthur Schopenhaue

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

Pearl Buck

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

Henry David Thoreau

Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.

Henry Adams

It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.

Shaftesbury

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Jacques Deval

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Richard Bach

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Every women needs at least 4 animals. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass that pays for everything.

Paris Hilton

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Alexander Hamilton

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

There is a homely old adage which runs: Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

Theodore Roosevelt, Speech in Chicago, 3 Apr. 1903