Age Quotes

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.
Harry S. Truman
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein, (attributed)
Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.
Author Unknown
William a. smith, 1908 - engineering is the science of economy, of...
Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.
Agesilaus the Second
The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon. Let others say his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig.
Ogden Nash, "The Pig".
Alain van der heide - meetings are an addictive, highly self -...
For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.
Woody Allen
Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.
George Bernard Shaw
No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.
J. Lawton Collins
He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.
Johnson
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Maurice Chevalie
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Theodore herman albert dreise - religion is a bandage that man has invented to...
Old age is not a disease - It is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
Samuel Johnson
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.
Mark Twain
There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.
Woody Allen
A different language is a different vision of life.
Federico Fellini
Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.
Marion Howard
How Kennedy knew the precise drop in milk consumption in 1960, the percentage rise in textile imports from 1957 to 1960 and the number of speeches cleared by the Defense Department is not quite clear, but anyway, he did. He either overwhelmed you with decimal points or disarmed you with a smile and a wisecrack.
James Barrett Scotty Reston
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
Plato, The Republic
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies against despots - - Suspicion.
Demosthenes
The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.
Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo
A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own.
Johann von Goethe
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi
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 Way of Lao - Tzu
There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.
Oswald Mosley
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Abraham Lincoln
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.
Barnett Brickne
We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears.
John Ruskin
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.
Herbert Hoove
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
Clark Gable, Gone With the Wind
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Someone asked Sophocles, How do you feel now about sex Are you able to have a woman He replied, Hush man most gladly indeed am I rid off it all, as though I had escaped from a mad and savage master.
Sophocles
Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Florence Scovel Shinn
Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.
Christopher Morley
History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.
George W. Bush
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.
George Herbert Walker Bush