Age Quotes

Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - Especially if he has a teenage daughter.

Guy Albert Lombardo

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to chage the way you think.

Oprah Winfrey

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Shaftesbury

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance the more we feel how much remains unknown.

Humphrey Davy

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.

Leo Tolstoy

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

Raymond Lindquist

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.

Mario M Cuomo

My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.

Josh Billings

How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 1

I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in the making, but shall draw its materials largely from the annual produce of the fields.

Henry Ford, 1934

If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind.

Don Marquis

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

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

Baltasar Gracian

To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Bernard M. Baruch, 1940

Age, health, and stage in life have nothing to do with serving or not serving. In each season of life there are attributes and qualities of life and experience that God values in service.

Bruce Kempe

By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.

George W. Bush, Speech to the United Nations, September 12, 2002

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Joseph Roux

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

William Butler Yeats

I have three treasures. Guard and keep them The first is deep love, The second is frugality, And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world. Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

Lao Tzu

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

George Burns

Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

Maya Angelou

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things Knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Amelia Earhart

I pay very little regard... to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitheead

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Albert Schweitze

Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.

George W. Bush

David I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being *crushed* by a *dwarf*. Alright That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.

This Is Spinal Tap

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Plutarch

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

William Osle

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

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original autho.

Philip G. Hamerton

The great leaders have always stage - Managed their effects.

Charles De Gaulle

The great tragedy of science - - The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Thomas Huxley