Age Quotes

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Sir Thomas Browne, 1642

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.

Mary Anne Radmache

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.

Coventry Patmore

Consult your dragon before you wager his hide.

Melaine Rawn, Dragon Star 1: Stronghold

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.

John W. Gardne

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

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Sophocles, Antigone

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

Unknown

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds.

Michael Dorris

The vice - President of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.

Fred Allen

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

I grow more intense as I age.

Florida Scott - Maxwell, O Magazine, October 2003

It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005

Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college.

Tom Masson

There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

Peter Drucke

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

Henry Ford

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

Erma Bombeck

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Thornton Wilde

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

Author Unknown

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

The stream of thought flows on but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.

William James

I am part of the sea and stars And the winds of the South and North Of mountains and Moon and Mars, And the ages sent me forth.

Edward H. S. Terry

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Louis K. Anspache

Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

Tom Stoppard, Rosencranz And Guildenstern Are Dead

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.

Wystan Hugh Auden

In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

William S. Burroughs

The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter.

Sir Winston Churchill

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 1

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

Oscar Wilde, , in a letter to his friend, Frances Forbes - Robertson, who had invited him to her wedding in London, but Wilde wa

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