Age Quotes

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

Steven Weinberg

The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, - All duties even.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

Lao Tzu

People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.

Erma Bombeck

Courage is found in unlikely places.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the others.

Miguel Cerbantes

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. ... We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

Arnold Bennett

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle - Aged children for signs of improvement.

Florida Scott - Maxwell

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Henry Louis Mencken

All of our dreams can come true - - If we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

I have enjoyed greatly the second bloomingsuddenly you find - At the age of 50, say - That a whole new life has opened before you.

Agatha Christie

When marrying, ask yourself this question Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

Red Skelton

There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.

Lillian Eichler Watson

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

Ansel Adams

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

Dr. Dale E. Turne

Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college.

Tom Masson

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

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

Judy Garland

Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life.

Margaret Lowenfeld

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.

Bill Clinton, announcement of Next Generation Internet initiative, 1996

We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.

C. C. Colton

The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.

Saint Augustine

Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may.

Jack Holland

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists".

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

Albert Einstein

An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon.

Gerald R. Ford

An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.

Hoshang N. Akhta

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Ayn Rand

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

John Howe

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

George Will

We are all connected to everyone and everything in the universe. Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the whole. All thoughts, words, images, prayers, blessings, and deeds are listened to by all that is.

Serge Kahili King

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005