Age Quotes

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

Mark Twain

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

William Congreve

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

Lao Tzu

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

Theodore Harold White

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

Joseph Stalin

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.

William Shakespeare

If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.

Horace Bushnell

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

Ansel Adams

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Sydney Smith

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu

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

Walt Disney

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

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

Maria Edgeworth

Courage is a special kind of knowledge the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

David Ben - Gurion

When marrying, ask yourself this question Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

Raymond Lindquist

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong - - Because someday you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carve

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Delmore Schwartz

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

I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.

Russell Bake

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half - Shut afterwards.

Benjamin Franklin

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

G. K. Chesterton

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

Carol Burnett

A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.

Fontenelle

Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.

Calvin Trillin

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.

Firmianus Lactantius

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - Gunpowder and romantic love.

Andre Maurois

It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one from another; therefore, let all take heed as to the society in which they mingle, for in a little while they will be like it.

Rule of Life

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

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

J. B. Priestley

Marriage is like a dollar bill. You cannot spend half of it when you tear it in two. The value of one half depends upon the other.

Joe Moore

It is the responsibility of the sender to make sure the receiver understands the message.

Joseph Batten

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 4 scene 3

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Publilius Syrus