Age Quotes

Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

Kahlil Gibran

We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.

Aldous Huxley

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Ours is the age of substitutes instead of language, we have jargon instead of principles, slogans and instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

Eric Bentley

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Charles Caleb Colton

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

Amanda Cross

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

Alfred Victor Vigny

He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.

Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954

People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.

Erma Bombeck

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

Horace Walpole

Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life.

Margaret Lowenfeld

Courage in danger is half the battle.

Titus Plautus

My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.

Rodney Dangerfield

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

John Lyly

The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other.

Henry Kissinge

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Arnold Toynbee

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Sophocles

The stage lost a fine actor, just as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dr. John H. Watson, referring to Sherlock Holmes, in "A Scandal in Bohemia".

Money is the root of all evil, but the foliage is fascinating.

Val Peters

The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things have their beginnings but the seed never explains the flower.

Edith Hamilton

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Edward De Bono

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

Martin Luthe

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

Lily Tomlin

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.

Clement Stone

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Saint Francis of Assisi

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence.

Art Linklette

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

Robert Benchley

A specification that will not fit on one page of 8. 5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.

Mark Ardis

England and America are two countries seperated by the same language.

George Bernard Shaw

It takes a village to raise an idiot.

William Dukane

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

John Simon

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Bertie Forbes

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions.

George Carlin, Napalm and Silly Putty

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

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.

Joachim du Bellay

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Matthew Arnold