Age Quotes

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principle one was that they escaped teething.
Mark Twain
Paul tabori, _the natural science of stupidity_. (new york: chiltoncompany, 1960), p. 104. - modern war has decimated many a country; but it...
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carve
It is easier to talk about money - - And much easier to talk about sex - - Than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.
Smiley Blanton
A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.
Jacques Maritain
David I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being *crushed* by a *dwarf*. Alright That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.
This Is Spinal Tap
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
Henry David Thoreau
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve
William shakespeare, macbeth, act v, scene v (macbeth) - life is but a walking shadow, a poor player that...
Language study is a route to maturity. Indeed, in language study as in life, if a person is the same today as he was yesterday, it would be an act of mercy to pronounce him dead and to place him in a coffin, rather than in a classroom.
John A. Rassias
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
William H. Mauldin
Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.
Author Unknown
The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.
Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
George Santayana, Dialogues in Limbo (1925) ch. 3
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
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Gustave flaubert, madame bovary - the human language is like a cracked kettle on...
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
Jimmy Breslin
He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent - Infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination - - And taxes.
H. E. Martz
On that day let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that all their efforts shall not have been in vain.
Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
Hoshang N. Akhta
The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.
Albert Schweitze
Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Andre Maurois
War connot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the others advantage.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Just because you love someone doesnt mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.
Hugh Elliott
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
Diane Ackerman
According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.
Charles Richte
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, O Magazine, October 2003
Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing.
Gyles Lytton Sitrachy
Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.
J. Todd
We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.
Eric Hoffe
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914)
I believe that I shall see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord with courage be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord.
Psalm 27 13 - 14 Bible
When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it.
Lao Tzu
The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them - Thus preserving the system.
Quentin
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647
He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - Cynical, but hopeful.
Dame Rose Macaulay, Crewe Train, 1926
I think on - Stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.
Shelley Winters
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high - Class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
Katharine Hepburn