Age Quotes

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Paul Tillich

American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.

George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999

Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.

Blaise Pascal

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 Way of Lao - Tzu

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the devil.

Kara Vichko

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu

Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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

Kahlil Gibran

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Mark Twain

Never feel self - Pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Millicent Fenwick

One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again.

Judith Viorst

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies (1981)

By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.

William Carlos Williams

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, 1697, act III scene 8

I speak BASIC to clients, 1 - 2 - 3 to management, and mumble to myself.

Anon.

The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.

Wilson Mizne

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

Horace Greeley

The Dilbert Principle The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage - - Management.

Scott Adams

Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Ambrose Bierce

Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half - Baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

Alexander Haig

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

Leszezynski Stanislaus

We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Lucille Ball

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

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickove

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Mark Twain

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

When one has nothing left to lose one becomes courageous. We are timid only when we have something left to cling to.

Don Juan Matus, The Second Ring Of Power by Carlos Castaneda

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

Seneca, Epistulae Morales

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

Mark Twain

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

Peter Ustinov

Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose - Garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind.

T. S. Eliot

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

William H. Mauldin

Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Jane Harrison

Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

J. G. Gallimore