Age Quotes

Age is no guarantee of maturity.

Lawana Blackwell

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Jacques Deval

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Florence Shinn

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.

Thomas Jefferson

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle - Aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

I. F. Stone

We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally.

Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign ministe

Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.

Prince Otto

I know why the caged bird sings.

Maya Angelou, Quoting a lyric by Paul Laurence Dunba

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

Daniel Boorstin

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

Plato

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm - Blooded to fall into this vice.

Abraham Lincoln

It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.

Shaftesbury

Human beings are seventy percent water, and with some the rest is collagen.

Martin Mull

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.

Russell Green

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

James Abram Garfield

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.

Joe Darion, "The Impossible Dream".

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

William Shakespeare

I was born at the age of 12 on a Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer lot.

Judy Garland

The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.

Thucydides

I pay very little regard... to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

I speak BASIC to clients, 1 - 2 - 3 to management, and mumble to myself.

Anon.

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

Henri - Frederic Amiel

Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Plato

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

Courage is not the towering oak That sees storms come and go It is the fragile blossom That opens in the snow.

Alice Mackenzie Swaim

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Johann von Goethe

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Eric Hoffe

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - These are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

Jerome Seymour Brune

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Confucius

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.

Alexander Hamilton

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

George Carlin

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Peter De Vries

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.

William Shakespeare

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

Plato, The Republic

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Herbert Marshall McLuhan

Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.

William A. Smith, 1908

That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

Thomas Carlyle

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.

Henry David Thoreau