Age Quotes

Courage may be taught as a child is taught to speak.

Euripides

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Eric Sevareid

They say that the wages of sin is death. But after taxes its just a tired feeling really.

Paula Poundstone, HBO stand - Up routine

A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.

Max Weinreich

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Conte Vittorio Alfieri

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Carl Sandburg, New York Times Feb. 13, 1959

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem - And in my esteem age is not estimable.

George Gordon Byron

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.

Mark Twain

All of the significant battles are waged within the self.

Sheldon Kopp

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

J. Michael Straczynski

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Rosevelt

We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Benjamin Disraeli

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

Homer, The Odyssey

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.

Alexander Hamilton

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

Mark Twain

There are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering.

Trevor Rook

Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.

Julian Weber Gordon

Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.

Bias

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, - All duties even.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Ruth Gordon

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

Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky

In marriage, being the right person is as important as finding the right person.

Wilbert Donald Gough

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

Carol Burnett

Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity.

W. Kelly Griffith

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Robertson Davies

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

James Madison

My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.

Rodney Dangerfield

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you.

Virgil

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

Calvin Coolidge

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

Voltaire

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

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

Seneca, Epistulae Morales

Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.

Rosenstock - Huessy

Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

Kahlil Gibran