Age Quotes

Eda j. le shan - in all our efforts to provide advantages we have...
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927
America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Evan Esa
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
R. D. Laing
Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.
Alvin Toffle
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle - Aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott - Maxwell
Homer, the odyssey - you ought not to practice childish ways, since...
If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.
Horace Bushnell
Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
H. Mumford Jones
Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.
Amanda Cross
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
Horace walpole - this world is a comedy for those who think and a...
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
Sydney Smith
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
Age withers only the outside.
Author Unknown
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein, (attributed)
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.
Rob Brown
Time is the image of eternity.
Laertius Diogenes
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.
Christina Baldwin
It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one from another; therefore, let all take heed as to the society in which they mingle, for in a little while they will be like it.
Rule of Life
In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.
Vincent Van Gogh
I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.
Marilyn Monroe
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
Jean Cocteau
We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945
Courage in danger is half the battle.
Titus Plautus
One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
Josef Stalin
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists".
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
Heywood
We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
Jeff Marde
Courage atrophies from lack of use.
Unknown
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
Larry Wall
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
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. ... We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.
George Saintsbury
We live by encouragement and die without it - - Slowly, sadly, angrily.
Celeste Holm
No country can be described as free - But each has different degrees of bondage.
Agatha Christie, Appointment with Death