Age Quotes

Many people have died for their beliefs? The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.

Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

George Bancroft

I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

Oscar Wilde

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Cicero

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

Plato

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

Mark Twain

I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget.

Charles Hamilton Aide

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - Gunpowder and romantic love.

Andre Maurois

People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them.

Anatole France

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Pinda

Marriage is the wastepaper basket of the emotions.

Leon Botstein

We must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage, and determination to succeed.

Rosalind Sussman Yalow

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

John Updike

In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I hate middle age. Too young for the bowling green, too old for Ecstasy.

Ian Pattison, Rab C. Nesbitt, television series

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Confucius

A self - Balancing, 28 - Jointed adaptor - Based biped; an electro - Chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62, 000 miles of capillaries....

R. Buckminster Fulle

Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind - Folded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

Removing the faults in a stage - Coach may produce a perfect stage - Coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

Edward De Bono

Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.

Vicki Baum

All my pupils are the crme de la crme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

Muriel Spark

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

Woody Allen

We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears.

John Ruskin

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

Ansel Adams

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.

Sir Winston Churchill

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Johann von Goethe

Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it.

Johnson

Life is a tragedy when seen in close - Up, but a comedy in long - Shot.

Charlie Chaplin

A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

Cicero

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.

Noah Webste

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

In marriage, being the right person is as important as finding the right person.

Wilbert Donald Gough

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

However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Henry David Thoreau