Age Quotes

Indignation boils my blood at the thought of the heritage we are throwing away; at the thought that, with few exceptions, the fight for freedom is left to the poor, forlorn and defenseless, and to the few radicals and revolutionaries who would make use of liberty to destroy, rather than to maintain, American institutions.

Arthur Garfield Hays

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

Marilyn Monroe

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Benjamin Disraeli

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the others.

Miguel Cerbantes

Count your life by smiles, not tears. Count your age by friends, not years.

Unknown

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Maya Angelou

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.

Phyllis McGinley

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

Jessamyn West

Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.

Joubert

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. : -

Larry Wall in

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus (1922)

All my pupils are the crme de la crme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

Muriel Spark

One of the many ways of managing peers is to knock them down so heavily, whenever we find them on their wrong foot, that they loose the courage of raising their voice when we are wrong.

B. J. Gupta

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

The people that one bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses.

Juvenal

Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many.

Publilius Syrus

Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremble... for the Lord, your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or forsake you.

Bible, Deuteronomy 31: 6 NAS

The Net interprets censorship as damage... and routes around it.

John Gilmore

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

Alfred North Whitehead

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Stephen Covey

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

French Prove

Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Wendell Phillips

The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign.

George W. Bush, Speech (2005)

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

Arnold Bennett

Legend a lie that has attained the dignity of age.

Henry Louis Mencken

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Groucho Marx

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Sigmund Freud

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

William Congreve

Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

Henry David Thoreau

Removing the faults in a stage - Coach may produce a perfect stage - Coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

Edward De Bono

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

Arthur Schopenhaue

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

Unknown

Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - Especially if he has a teenage daughter.

Guy Albert Lombardo

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

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Joe Murray