Age Quotes
BASIC - A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company.Anon.
Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.Vicki Baum
The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether.Steve Martini
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.George S. Patton
One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.Josef Stalin
Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age.Christopher Morley
For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.Wystan Hugh Auden
Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!Edwin Louis Cole
The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - These are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.Jerome Seymour Brune
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.Charles Caleb Colton
These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the devil.Kara Vichko
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.Richard Bach
Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality - - Do whatever makes the most money.Barry Schwartz
Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.Julian Weber Gordon
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle - Aged men.Kin Hubbard
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.Lao Tzu
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.Peter Drucke
No man is truly great, who is great only in his life - Time. The test of greatness is the page of history.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
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.
My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.Rodney Dangerfield
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.Friedrich Nietzsche
Money is the root of all evil, but the foliage is fascinating.Val Peters
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.Voltaire
Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.Oscar Levant
Most people go on living their everyday life half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi - Comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.Albert Einstein
To endure the cross is not tragedy it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.Victoria Lincoln
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.Katharine Butler Hathaway
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.Thomas Troward
Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.Johnson
Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less.Robert E. Lee
One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.Eric Hoffe
A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.Jacques Maritain
Courageous risks are life - Giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.Joan L. Curcio
A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in which he resides, and for the true welfare of the society of which he is a member.Johathan Edwards
