Age Quotes
Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to.Black Hawk
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.Clive Staples Lewis
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.Author Unknown
Age withers only the outside.Author Unknown
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle - Aged children for signs of improvement.Florida Scott - Maxwell
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so jointed that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.Logan Pearsall Smith
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.Josh Billings
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Thought: why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only for food: frequently there must be a beverage.Woody Allen, Without Feathers
I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget.Charles Hamilton Aide
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.Dr. Dale E. Turne
Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance.David Pratt
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?Philip G. Hamerton, "The Intellectual Life".
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.Barnett Brickne
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife, Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life, Is worth an age without name.Thomas Osbert Mordaunt
Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.Bhagavad Gita
Our common language is... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non - English - Speaking children learn this common language.William John Bennett
Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.Robert Brault
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
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.Ron Wild
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.John Lancaster Spalding
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.Samuel Johnson
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.Thornton
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - First to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.Albert Camus
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.Ralph W. Sockman
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.Jeanne Moreau
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.Babylonian Talmud, tractate Gittin
The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.Sir B. Brodie
Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.Field Marshall John French
How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown.William Shakespeare
When you have a child, the world has a hostage.Ernest Hemingway
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.W. Somerset Maugham
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.Indian Prove
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.Henry Ford
Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.Solon
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
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.Henry David Thoreau
