Age Quotes

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

George Bernard Shaw

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Thornton Wilde

Adolescence is the stage between infancy and adultery.

Unknown

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

Money is the root of all evil, but the foliage is fascinating.

Val Peters

In producers, loafing is productive and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.

Jacques Martin Barzun

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

Martha Graham

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

Josh Billings

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

Judy Garland

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

Augustine, (AD 354 - 430)

It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.

Homer, The Odyssey

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

The scars you acquire by exercising courage, Will never make you feel inferior.

D. A. Battista

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

Oprah Winfrey

There is nothing worse then a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Ansel Adams

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

Peter Cochrane

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.

Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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

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

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

Richard Lovelace, To Althea from Prison

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Alfred North Whitehead

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

Denis Diderot

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

Paul Valery

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

Saint Augustine

Meetings are an addictive, highly self - Indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.

Alain van der Heide

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

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Johann von Goethe

He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.

Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954

The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.

Theodore Roosevelt

A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

Ernest Hemingway

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

Walter Ke

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

Unknown

He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent - Infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination - - And taxes.

H. E. Martz

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck