Age Quotes
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies against despots - - Suspicion.Demosthenes
Whoever controls the media - - The images - - Controls the culture.Allen Ginsberg
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager.William S. Burroughs
Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.John W. Gardne
Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.Trotsky
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity so have some little frocks but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.Dorothy L. Sayers
Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined....Leo C. Rosten
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.A. A. Milne
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.Alphonse Ka
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.Mark Twain
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
I am years gone from my family and miles away... but they raid by telephone with jarring suddenness they have the cyclic constancy of a mortgage and they are inevitable and relentless, like the erosion of my remaining youth. Like certain frightening dreams, my family returns.Jerrold Mundis
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.Cicero
He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence... too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.Thomas Jefferson
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.Johnson
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.William Shakespeare
The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.Kahlil Gibran
By courage I repel adversity. Adversa Virtute Repello.Anonymous
The Stone Age came to an end not for a lack of stone, and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil.Zaki Yamani, (chief architect of OPEC)
A page of history is worth a pound of logic.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.Stanislaus
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem - And in my esteem age is not estimable.George Gordon Byron
A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.H. W. Dodds
Our government sprang from and was made for the people - - Not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.Andrew Johnson
Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.Ambrose Bierce
We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - Enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I have enjoyed greatly the second bloomingsuddenly you find - At the age of 50, say - That a whole new life has opened before you.Agatha Christie
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self - Distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.Author Unknown
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
It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.Judith Rossne
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.Leszezynski Stanislaus
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.Thomas Higginson
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.Unknown
Men are like wine some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.Pope John XXIII
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
