Age Quotes

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

Eleanor Roosevelt

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

David Ben - Gurion

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill - Advised marriages than from virginity.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. ... He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.

Jean Nathan Mille

Politics doesn? t make strange bedfellows - - Marriage does.

Groucho Marx

The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.

Theodore Roosevelt

It takes a village to raise a child.

African Prove

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.

La Rochefoucauld

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

John Howe

Without justice courage is weak.

Benjamin Franklin

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage - - It can be delightful.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Kahlil Gibran

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

Sainte - Beave

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 27 - 04

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

Unknown

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

H Hahn Blavatsky

If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Beverly Nichols

We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language.... We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a common goal of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.

Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)

Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.

Mary Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, A Memoi

Whoever said Marriage is a 5 - 5 proposition laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any other short sentence in our language.

Austin Elliot

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Ogden Nash

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

Fran Lebowitz

Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

J. G. Gallimore

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

Charles Scribner, Jr.

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)

A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving

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

Johnson

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

Cicero

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

Benjamin Franklin

Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - The image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.

Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

Jeremy Taylo

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - Ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

Lytton Strachey

The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism.

Norman Brenne