Age Quotes
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, - All duties even.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowing that I am not the one in control gives great encouragement. Knowing the One who is in control is everything.Alexander Michael
Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination.Mark Twain
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.Heywood
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.Jacques Deval
There is no accident so disastrous that a clever man cannot derive some profit from it nor any so fortunate that a fool cannot turn it to his disadvantage.La Rochefoucauld
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.Sydney Smith
Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.Author Unknown
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.Virginia Woolf
Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is, but let us consider the two possibilities. If you gain, you gain all if you lose you lose nothing. Hesitate not, then, to wager that He is.Blaise Pascal
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.Benjamin Disraeli
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.Harry S Truman
I am is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that I do is the longest sentence?George Carlin
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.Erica Jong
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.Muriel Spark
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.Joan Baez
The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up at me as though I, too, were already caught a few feet above him in the strata and, in my turn, were staring upward at that strip of sky which the ages were carrying farther away from me.Loren
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.Sir William Arthu
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1882
Good leadership consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.John D. Rockefelle
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.Sir Winston Churchill
My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.Sir Winston Churchill
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age is no guarantee of maturity.Lawana Blackwell
To endure the cross is not tragedy it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.Martha Graham
Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken.Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.Israel Zangwill
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.Robert Francis Kennedy
Strength, courage and power do not exclude kindness, understanding and consideration. You can be strong and kind; you can be courageous and understanding; you can be powerful and considerate.Linda R. Dominguez, How to Shine at Work, (McGraw - Hill)
The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.William James
I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment - - But if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. A Tramp Abroad, 1880.Mark Twain
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.Francis Quarles
The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.Portuguese - Jewish Wedding Ceremony
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.William James
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1, 000 years. To read is to voyage through time.Carl Sagan
