Age Quotes
They say that the wages of sin is death. But after taxes its just a tired feeling really.Paula Poundstone, HBO stand - Up routine
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.William Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night", Act 3 scene 4
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
Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.Margaret Atwood
The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.Julie Arabi
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak.Francois La Rochefoucauld
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.H. L. Mencken
America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.Evan Esa
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.J. B. Priestley
Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.Mark Twain
Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.Friedrich Nietzsche
Courage changes things for the better... With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.Earl Nightingale
Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.John Kenneth Galbraith
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.Stephen Jay Gould
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.Henry Kissinge
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.La Rochefoucauld
Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.Bias
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn.Blaise Pascal
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.Groucho Marx
I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment - - But if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. A Tramp Abroad, 1880.Mark Twain
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.Washington Irving
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.Lewis Thomas
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.Maria Edgeworth
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read.Mark Twain
What business strategy is all about; what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning - Is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.Keniche Ohnae
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.Horace Walpole
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.Cyril Connolly
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high - Class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.Katharine Hepburn
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.John Lancaster Spalding
Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.Saint Francis of Assisi
You will have more fun on your vacation if you maintain a mental age of 18 or less. Act just old enough to make your travel connections and stay out of trouble.Joe Schwartz
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.Phyllis McGinley
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1882
Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half - Shut afterwards.Benjamin Franklin
The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.J. Michael Straczynski
