Age Quotes

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us put out more and better ideas if our efforts are truly appreciated.

Alexander Osborn

Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.

Mark Twain

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

Kathleen Norris

In youth we learn in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, 1697, act III scene 8

The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.

Abbe Guillaume Raynal

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Brian Adams

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

Oscar Wilde

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aidthem to judge for themselves.

William Ellery Channing

All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.

Miguel de Unamuno

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

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

Whitney M. Young Jr.

Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities.

John A. Rassias

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.

Harry S. Truman

Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Everyone is the age of their heart.

Guatemalan Prove

Most people my age are dead at the present time.

Casey Stengel

Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.

LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe

If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

George W. Bush

The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.

Oscar Wilde

In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.

Henry David Thoreau

By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.

William Carlos Williams

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.

Richard Milhous Nixon

For it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.

Alexander Hamilton

There is a homely old adage which runs Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

Theodore Roosevelt

Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.

Alford

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

Carol Burnett

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

Christina Baldwin

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Anita Brookne

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

Samuel Johnson

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Ruth Gordon

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.

La Bruyere

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - - As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Phyllis

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

George S. Patton

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field - work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

Robert Graves

Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.

Theodore Ledyard Cuyle