Age Quotes

My soldiers ask of me, why surrender a military advantage in the field... I could not answer.

General Douglas MacArthur, His final address to the joint session of the congress

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

Jeff Marde

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

A. Whitney Brown

No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.

Athenus

The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self - Reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.

Henry Louis Mencken

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Joubert

Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.

MG Siriam

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

Henry Havelock Ellis

The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

Albert Einstein

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain

Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Josh Billings

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

James Earl Jones

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

Roland Barthes, Esprit

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

Jay Leno

That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

Thomas Carlyle

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

Charles Scribner, Jr.

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly... I think - - Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it.

Henry David Thoreau

Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless, noisy baggage behind.

Jed Babbin, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.

Miguel de Cervantes

He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - Cynical, but hopeful.

Dame Rose Macaulay, Crewe Train, 1926

One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.

William Safire

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Samuel Goldwyn

There is a homely old adage which runs Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

Theodore Roosevelt

The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.

Portuguese - Jewish Wedding Ceremony

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Thomas Edison

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

Alison Lurie

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

Martin Luthe

Gossip needs no carriage.

Russian Prove

Courage may be taught as a child is taught to speak.

Euripides

Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.

W. C. Fields

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

Samuel Johnson