Age Quotes

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

One man with courage makes a majority.

Andrew Old Hickory Jackson

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.

Leo Tolstoy

American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.

George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999

Having a thirteen - Year - Old in the family is like having a general - Admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen - Agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

Max Lerne

For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.

Erich Fromm

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Peter Drucke

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Victor Hugo

Evil is a fact not to be explained away, but to be accepted and accepted not to be endured, but to be conquered. It is a challenge neither to our reason nor to our patience, but to our courage.

John Andrew Holmes

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.

William Feathe

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

W. Somerset Maugham

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Herbert Kaufman

Man... is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill - Educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

Plato

The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Thomas Carlyle, Proflies in Courage by: John F. Kennedy

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

Martin Mull

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Maya Angelou

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Lucille Ball

Meetings are an addictive, highly self - Indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.

Alain van der Heide

Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Woody Allen

I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue - Fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.

Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947

One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again.

Judith Viorst

By courage I repel adversity.

Anonymous

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

Johann von Goethe

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.

Henry David Thoreau

Courage changes things for the better... With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.

Earl Nightingale

One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.

Josef Stalin

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Horace Walpole

Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.

Oscar Levant

Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less.

Robert E. Lee

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantages of others.

Niccolo Machiavelli