Age Quotes

The shortage of student loans may require... divestiture of certain sorts - Stereo divestiture, automobile divestiture, three - weeks - At - The - Beach divestiture.

William John Bennett

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.

Tom Lehre

Courage conquers all things.

Ovid

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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

Mark Twain

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Kurt Vonnegut

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

Theodore Harold White

No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.

J. Lawton Collins

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleano

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.

Eric Hoffe

Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.

James Rippe, M. D.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

George Washington

No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - - I mean the wages of decent living.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - Every day begin the task anew.

Saint Francis de Sales

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.

Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Abraham Lincoln

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

George Santayana

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others.

William Hazlitt

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

Doug Larson

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

Samuel Johnson

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

J. B. Priestley

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.

J. K. Rowling

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.

Kahlil Gibran

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.

General Colin Powell

Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.

Author Unknown

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.

Quentin Crisp

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.

Saint Augustine

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

J. R. R. Tolkien

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.

Carol Matthau, O Magazine, October 2003

I hate middle age. Too young for the bowling green, too old for Ecstasy.

Ian Pattison, Rab C. Nesbitt, television series

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

Alexander Haig

What is it the Bible teaches us? - Rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.

Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

Adulthood is the ever - Shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

Thomas Szasz