Age Quotes
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.Ben Harpe
We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.Anais Nin
Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.Phillip Chesterfield
Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.Mark Hopkins, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
You manage things you lead people.Grace Murray Hoppe
Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.George Burton Adams
Most men who are not married by the age of thirty - Five are either homosexual or really smart.Becky Rodenbeck
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
The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.J. Michael Straczynski
From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty - Five, she needs good looks. From thirty - Five to fifty - Five, she needs a good personality. From fifty - Five on, she needs good cash.Sophie Tucke
Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.Henri de Montherlant
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.Desiderius Erasmus
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
It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu
I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.Charles A. Beard
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.William Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night", Act 3 scene 4
The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses!Juvenal, Satires
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.Christopher Morley
No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.H. L. Mencken
I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a tragedy when seen in close - Up, but a comedy in long - Shot.Charlie Chaplin
Nature has perfection, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image.Blaise Pascal
A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in which he resides, and for the true welfare of the society of which he is a member.Johathan Edwards
Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.Agesilaus the Second
That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.Thomas Carlyle
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.Jean Anouilh
To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage.Confucius Analects
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.Roosevelt, Eleano
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.James F. Clarke
The world is disgracefully managed one hardly knows to whom to complain.Ronald Firbank
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.George Bernard Shaw
The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.Saint Augustine
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.Johann von Goethe
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
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.Samuel Johnson
The Dilbert Principle The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage - - Management.Scott Adams
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.Mark Twain
