Age Quotes

Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.

Bias

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

Calvin Trillin

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

Norman Douglas

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson, Ziggy (comic)

The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort - He never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

Arnold Bennett

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.

Elizabeth Harrison

There is one universal gesture that has one universal message - - A smile.

Valerie Sokolosky

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.

Francis Bacon

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 not to be feared.

David Ben - Gurion

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

Logan Pearsall Smith

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!

Edwin Louis Cole

Courage is grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

Robert Elwood Bly

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

Sam Rayburn

What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you... every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.

Marquis de Sade

Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.

Margo Kaufman

All of the significant battles are waged within the self.

Sheldon Kopp

Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward.

John Mortimer, The Observer (1999)

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Larry Eisenberg

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

Age, health, and stage in life have nothing to do with serving or not serving. In each season of life there are attributes and qualities of life and experience that God values in service.

Bruce Kempe

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

Publilius Syrus

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.

Josh Billings

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Johann von Goethe

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

George W. Bush

How Kennedy knew the precise drop in milk consumption in 1960, the percentage rise in textile imports from 1957 to 1960 and the number of speeches cleared by the Defense Department is not quite clear, but anyway, he did. He either overwhelmed you with decimal points or disarmed you with a smile and a wisecrack.

James Barrett Scotty Reston

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One

The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.

Vilhjlmur Stefnsson

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

Hermann Hesse

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Evan Esa

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.

Herbert Hoove

This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.

Victoria Lincoln

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Robert G. Ingersoll

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

Daniel Boorstin