Age Quotes

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to.

Black Hawk

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

Amanda Cross

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.

George Bernard Shaw

The vice - President of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.

Fred Allen

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

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.

Anatole France

Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half - Baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Music is the soul of language.

Max Heindel

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

A. A. Milne

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

Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people.

Unknown

The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things have their beginnings but the seed never explains the flower.

Edith Hamilton

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Kurt Vonnegut

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

Oscar Wilde

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.

Camille Paglia

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003

On stage, I make love to 25, 000 people, then I go home alone.

Janis Joplin

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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 will not forget you.

William Arthur Ward

The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.

Oscar Wilde

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.

Johnson

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

Albert Einstein

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Billy Graham

I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.

Albert Einstein

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Arnold Toynbee

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.

Winston Churchill, Quoted in: Irving Klotz, Bending perception, a book review, Nature, 1996, Volume 379, p 412

I stopped believing in Santa Claus at age six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley Temple Black

Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.

J. Todd

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.

Gilda Radne

It is about a socialist, anti - Family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

Pat Robertson, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.

Richard Willard Armou

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Confucius

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.

William Franklin Billy Graham

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

Marcel Proust