Age Quotes

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Lucille Ball

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.

William Ellery Channing

Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.

Alvin Toffle

In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space.

Judith Stone

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager.

William S. Burroughs

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.

Henri Frdric Amiel

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage.

Sydney Smith

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.

E. F. Schumache

A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.

Fontenelle

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, Act 1 Scene 1

A crisis does not always appear to a policymaker as a series of dramatic events. Usually it imposes itself as an exhausting agenda of petty chores demanding both concentration and endurance.

Henry Kissinger, Years of Upheaval

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage.

Confucius Analects

The people that one bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses.

Juvenal

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

Annie Dillard

One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again.

Judith Viorst

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

Robert Burton

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, We shall remember them.

Laurence Binyen

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

Pearl Buck

Not every age is fit for childish sports.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Meetings are an addictive, highly self - Indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.

Alain van der Heide

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way throughout a thousand obstacles.

Washington Irving

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.

George Santayana

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

Josh Billings

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

Hermann Hesse

Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.

H. L. Mencken

Suffering. We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Anatole France

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

William Shakespeare

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.

Robert Frost

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richte

That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournie

In youth we learn in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children - - Unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide - And - Seek.

Bill Cosby, Time Flies

By courage I repel adversity. Adversa Virtute Repello.

Anonymous

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.

Barnett Brickne