Age Quotes

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

Kahlil Gibran

Dans ce pays - Ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. In this country England it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. from Candide.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.

Fontenelle

I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value,

Walt Whitman

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Author Unknown

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Anita Brookne

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914)

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

Keith Bostic

The Net interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it.

John Gilmore

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long - Established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

Henry Besseme

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Publilius Syrus

For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

Lyste

It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.

Sophocles

Indignation boils my blood at the thought of the heritage we are throwing away; at the thought that, with few exceptions, the fight for freedom is left to the poor, forlorn and defenseless, and to the few radicals and revolutionaries who would make use of liberty to destroy, rather than to maintain, American institutions.

Arthur Garfield Hays

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.

Carol Matthau, O Magazine, October 2003

From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.

Visions of Gregorian Chants

Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Harry S Truman

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Robert G. Ingersoll

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

Samuel Johnson

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

What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you... every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.

Marquis de Sade

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

Jeff Marde

The scientific theroy I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

Mark Russell

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

Eugene Debs

Courage changes things for the better... With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.

Earl Nightingale

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

Joseph Stalin

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - - As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Phyllis

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Andre Norton

Count your life by smiles, not tears. Count your age by friends, not years.

Unknown

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

Larry Wall

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

Thucydides

Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people.

Unknown

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife, Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life, Is worth an age without name.

Thomas Osbert Mordaunt

Saying we should keep the two - Party political system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.

Eugene McCarthy

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Charles Caleb Colton