Age Quotes

The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them - Thus preserving the system.

Quentin

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

William Blake

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

Good leadership consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

John D. Rockefelle

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Jane Austen

I detest life - Insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Stephen Leacock

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

Scott Adams

Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.

Calvin Trillin

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

Sir James Glove

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Helena Rubinstein

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

Robert Oxton Bolt

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

Marriage should be a duet - - when one sings, the other claps.

Joe Murray

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Carl Sandburg, New York Times Feb. 13, 1959

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

Lucille Ball

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

George Bernard Shaw

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

Unknown

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - First to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Albert Camus

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Aristotle

Music is the soul of language.

Max Heindel

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Paul Hawken, Growing a Business

Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

Pearl S. Buck

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

Mark Twain

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Henry Ward Beeche

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

Professor Irwin Corey

A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

Cicero

The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters.

Rachel Blanchard

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem - And in my esteem age is not estimable.

George Gordon Byron

The truth of the matter is that window management under X is not yet well understood.

The "Xlib Programming Manual".

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.

William Franklin Billy Graham

One man with courage is a majority.

Thomas Jefferson

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

William Osle

Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley