Age Quotes
The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.Sri da Avabhas
Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may.Jack Holland
Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids.Tim Bedore
All marriages are mixed marriages.Chantal Saperstein
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.Henry Ford
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
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - And friendless.Author Unknown
People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them.Anatole France
Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.Vicki Baum
In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.Thucydides
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.Ludwig Wittgenstein
Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.William Pitt
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.Mary Daly
Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.Johnson
I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.W. B. Yeats
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.A. C. Benson
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.George Saintsbury
There is nothing worse then a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.Ansel Adams
Carthago delenda est. Carthage must be destroyed.Marcius Porcius Cato
The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.Democritus
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.Henry James
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people - A black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.Martin Luther King, Jr.
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.Joseph Stalin
Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Life without the courage for death is slavery.Seneca
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.Martin Luther King, Jr.
All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.Sun - Tzu
The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.Boutros Boutros - Ghali
The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.Johnson
It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost....Richard Bach
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.James Earl Jones
I am about to put foward some major ideas they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely a few will in some sort, then, I shall have contributed to the progress of our age, and shall be content.Marquis de Sade
A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own.Johann von Goethe
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.Albert Einstein, (attributed)


