Age Quotes

The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.

Kahlil Gibran

The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.

Vilhjlmur Stefnsson

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way throughout a thousand obstacles.

Washington Irving

People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.

Erma Bombeck

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

Mark Twain

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

Carol Burnett

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Mark Twain

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Carl Sandburg

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Sophocles, Antigone

The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.

Ronald Firbank

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

Walt Disney

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - First to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Albert Camus

Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.

Mark Twain

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage.

Sydney Smith

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self - Esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

Fritz Perls

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Niccolo Machiavelli

We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.

George W. Bush, September 7, 2003

Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremble... for the Lord, your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or forsake you.

Bible, Deuteronomy 31: 6 NAS

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Stephen Hawking

Courage is being scared to death - But saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

Lao Tzu

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.

Saint Augustine

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

Eleanor Roosevelt

On marriage Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.

Estee Laude

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

Woody Allen

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

Baltasar Gracian

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

Logan Pearsall Smith

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

Stanislaus

Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.

Indian Prove

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.

Bill Clinton, announcement of Next Generation Internet initiative, 1996

In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Florence Shinn

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Robert Albert Bloch