Age Quotes
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.Delmore Schwartz
God created sex. Priests created marriage.Voltaire
What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you... every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.Marquis de Sade
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.Henry Louis Mencken
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.Joseph Stalin
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.Aldous Huxley
You manage things you lead people.Grace Murray Hoppe
The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.Ralph Waldo Emerson
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.Baltasar Gracian
He is a teenager, after all - A strange agent with holes in his jeans, studs in his ear, a tail down his neck, a cap on his head backward.Ellen Karsh
The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.Oscar Wilde
We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.Plato
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.Doug Larson
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.James Thurbe
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
Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - The image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.Herbert Kaufman
Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force...Peter F. Drucker, People and Performance
BASIC - A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company.Anon.
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.Alford
The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.Henri - Frederic Amiel
The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort - He never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.Arnold Bennett
When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it. Without the laugh, there is no Tao.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.William Butler Yeats
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.Samuel Johnson
When you have a child, the world has a hostage.Ernest Hemingway
Man... is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill - Educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.Plato
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.Thornton Wilde
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.Dr. Dale E. Turne
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.Sir W. Temple
Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.Thomas Jefferson
Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self - Righteous isolation.John Dewey
No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.H. L. Mencken
An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon.Gerald R. Ford
In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him."Aqualung" - Jethro Tull
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the others.Miguel Cerbantes
