Age Quotes
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.Joseph Stalin
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?Logan Pearsall Smith
The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other.Henry Kissinge
Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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
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
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.Mark Twain
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.Horace Walpole
He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - Cynical, but hopeful.Dame Rose Macaulay, Crewe Train, 1926
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.Arnold Bennett
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - Ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.Lytton Strachey
A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.Jacques Maritain
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.Alexander Hamilton
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.George Eliot, Middlemarch
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.Matthew Arnold
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
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
Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.William Faulkne
When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.Richard Brinsley Sheridan
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.Henry Ford
It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate manner that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.Oscar wilde, Quoted in Ellmann
There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.David Ben - Gurion
The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.John Updike
Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don? t mind, it doesn? t matter.Satchel Paige
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.Benjamin Disraeli
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
Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.Saint Francis of Assisi
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.Mark Twain
Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.Margo Kaufman
When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - Say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - It is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.Ronald Reagan
Courage in danger is half the battle.Titus Plautus
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.Abraham Lincoln
We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.Tom Stoppard, Rosencranz And Guildenstern Are Dead
Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many.Publilius Syrus
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.Dean Koontz
