Age Quotes

Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.

Henri Frdric Amiel

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

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies against despots - - Suspicion.

Demosthenes

What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches?

The Quarterly Review (England), March 1825

The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'

Dorothy Parke

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.

Henry Louis Mencken

I came from a disadvantaged home. They were Republicans.

Paul Tsongas, campaigning in New Hampshire

One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.

William Safire

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Delmore Schwartz

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

William Congreve

But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief, The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight, Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.

John Milton

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence.

Art Linklette

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.

Thomas Higginson

The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.

Abbe Guillaume Raynal

The medium is the message.

Marshall McLuhan

If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time.

Benito Mussolini, The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism, 1935

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

Kahlil Gibran

Thought: why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only for food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

Joseph Stalin

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

John Simon

The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

Albert Einstein

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

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas, Collected poems (1952)

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

George Burns

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Horace Walpole

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

Baltasar Gracian

Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream - A scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows - Is essentially poetry.

Jesse Louis Jackson

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

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

Pearl Buck

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.

Ogden Nash

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Ansel Adams

On marriage Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.

Estee Laude

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

James Taylo

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Ebner - Eschenbach