Age Quotes

High thoughts must have high language.

Aristophanes, Frogs, 405 B. C.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.

Orson Scott Card

Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict.

Paxton Blai

In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

John Simon

English is the easiest language to speak badly.

George Bernhard Shaw

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Maya Angelou

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Abraham Lincoln

Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages henceTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I - - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

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)

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own.

Johann von Goethe

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

Charles de Gaulle

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Indignation boils my blood at the thought of the heritage we are throwing away; at the thought that, with few exceptions, the fight for freedom is left to the poor, forlorn and defenseless, and to the few radicals and revolutionaries who would make use of liberty to destroy, rather than to maintain, American institutions.

Arthur Garfield Hays

Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.

Daniel Webste

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

Samuel Smiles

You manage things you lead people.

Grace Murray Hoppe

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

Sydney Harris

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Sir Thomas More

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Conte Vittorio Alfieri

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

Courage is a special kind of knowledge the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

David Ben - Gurion

I know some good marriages - - Marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

Erica Jong

To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.

P. G. Wodehouse

True love is not rare at the age of a teen, but recognizing it as true love is.

Brad Bell

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder - Storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

Thomas Mann

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

Charles Caleb Colton

Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.

Alexander Clark

A page of history is worth a pound of logic.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.

Eric Hoffer, "The True Believer", 1951

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Socrates, In "Apology, " sct. 21, by Plato.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

Plutarch

Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.

Mark Twain

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon