Age Quotes
A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages.Anon.
Music is the soul of language.Max Heindel
Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - The image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
If there be any truer message of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.Robert South
To hate a man because he was born in another country, because he speaks a different language, or because he takes a different view of this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human... Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity.John Comenius
People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them.Anatole France
In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.Ralph Waldo Emerson
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.Francis Bacon
A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.H. W. Dodds
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.Vincent Van Gogh
The average, healthy, well - Adjusted adult gets up at seven - Thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.Jean Ke
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.Reinhold Niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue - Fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.G. K. Chesterton
In youth we learn; in age we understand.Ebner - Eschenbach
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.Warren Bennis
On stage, I make love to 25, 000 people, then I go home alone.Janis Joplin
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.Eric Hoffe
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.W. B. Yeats
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.Sir Winston Churchill
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
Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.Quentin Crisp
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.Lyste
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
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
My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.Peggy Noonan
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.Erica Jong
Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.H. Mumford Jones
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.Homer, The Odyssey
Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half - Baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914)
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Dylan Thomas
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.Raymond Lindquist
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
The Net interprets censorship as damage... and routes around it.John Gilmore
