Age Quotes

Seneca - as was his language so was his life....
There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.
Cleveland Amory
Horace bushnell - if you had the seeds of pestilence in your body...
In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over - Organized generation of youngsters in our history.
Eda J. Le Shan
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Plato
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
Philip G. Hamerton, "The Intellectual Life".
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw
Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 27 - 04
We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.
George W. Bush, September 7, 2003
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - First to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Albert Camus
The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - They have preservatives.
Calvin Trillin
Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent - Infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination - - And taxes.
H. E. Martz
American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.
George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him.
"Aqualung" - Jethro Tull
A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.
Lao - Tzu
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
D. H. Lawrence
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
Jessamyn West
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.
Author Unknown
To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.
Confucius
The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.
Neil Postman
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Unknown
Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
Sophocles, Ajax
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 grow more intense as I age.
Florida Scott - Maxwell, O Magazine, October 2003
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
Henry David Thoreau
Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.
Ronald Reagan
Men are like wine some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Pope John XXIII
Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle Old Age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli
I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever.
Greg Proops
The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism.
Norman Brenne
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
E. Joseph Crossman
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.
William Shakespeare
Adolescence is the stage between infancy and adultery.
Unknown
Courage atrophies from lack of use.
Unknown
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.
George Bernard Shaw
Politics should be the part - Time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
Lucille Ball