Age Quotes

People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.

William Bennet Munro

Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self - Distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.

Author Unknown

England and America are two countries separated by a common language.

George Bernard Shaw

This document describes the usage and input syntax of the Unix Vax - 11 assembler As. As is designed for assembling code produced by the C compiler; certain concessions have been made to handle code written directly by people, but in general little sympathy has been extended.

Berkeley Vax/Unix Assembler Reference Manual (1983)

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.

Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Brian Adams

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

Samuel Johnson

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm - Blooded to fall into this vice.

Abraham Lincoln

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.

Jane E. Brody

The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.

Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager.

William S. Burroughs

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagne

The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.

Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - - The things we live by and teach our children - - Are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Walt Disney

Courage is one step ahead of fear.

Coleman Young

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.

Henry Louis Mencken

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others.

William Hazlitt

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Jean Anouilh

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

William H. Mauldin

Human beings are seventy percent water, and with some the rest is collagen.

Martin Mull

Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.

Gloria Steinem

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long - Established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

Henry Besseme

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.

Joseph Stalin

Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.

H. L. Mencken

Rigidly organized pre - School classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self - Image of marginality and failure.

Valerie Polakow

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, Sonnet de Regrets

The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.

Sir B. Brodie

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations and suddenly find - At the age of fifty, say - That a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about... It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

Agatha Christie

Adulthood is the ever - Shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

Thomas Szasz

Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Harry S Truman

There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.

Millicent Carey McIntosh

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein, (attributed)

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

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.

J. K. Rowling