Age Quotes
Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.Henry David Thoreau
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the faade of his appearance.Jean Iris Murdoch
Peter Who am I You sure you want to know The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied.Spider - Man
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927
Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict.Paxton Blai
Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about but evermore Came out by the same Door as in I went.Omar Khayym
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young men of this mealy generation the courage of their confusion.John Anthony Ciardi
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.Steven Weinberg
Courage atrophies from lack of use.Unknown
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1
In youth we learn; in age we understand.Ebner - Eschenbach
Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.Julie Arabi
Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you.Virgil
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.William Golding
It is the responsibility of the sender to make sure the receiver understands the message.Joseph Batten
Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.James Taylo
They say that the wages of sin is death. But after taxes its just a tired feeling really.Paula Poundstone, HBO stand - Up routine
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.Robert Burton
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.Robert Albert Bloch
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.Jewish Prove
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.Eric Sevareid
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - Gunpowder and romantic love.Andre Maurois
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.Stephen Jay Gould
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.Robert Frost
A filthy mouth will not utter decent language.Chinese Prove
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
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.Francois de Fenelon
When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - Say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - It is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.Johann von Goethe
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.Billy Graham
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.John Erskine
Most comics make jokes to defend themselves against what they see as a hostile and inhumane world often a deeply felt rage.Samuel S. Janus
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.Russell Green
