Age Quotes

The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.

Groucho Marx

Suffering. We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Anatole France

Adolescence is the stage between infancy and adultery.

Unknown

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

Lewis Thomas

The great leaders have always stage - Managed their effects.

Charles De Gaulle

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

Becuase I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.

Emily Dickinson

Most people go on living their everyday life half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi - Comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.

Albert Einstein

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface

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

Wilbert Donald Gough

For want of self - Restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross - Grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self - Control.

Smiles

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

Cleveland Amory

England and America are two countries separated by a common language.

George Bernard Shaw

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.

Henri Frdric Amiel

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Charles Caleb Colton

At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.

Benjamin Franklin

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

George Orwell

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

Homer, The Odyssey

Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.

George Du Maurie

Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.

Hannah Whitall Smith, 1907

But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief, The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight, Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.

John Milton

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas

Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age.

Johann von Goethe

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

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

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.

Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988

Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.

Keith Bostic

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.

Gloria Pitze

All of our dreams can come true - - If we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.

William Ellery Channing

Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost - Benefit calculations.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Metric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight and measurement system, one world - All communist! We know the West was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile.

Dean Krakel, Director of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame

I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.

Lindsay Lohan

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle - Aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

I. F. Stone