Age Quotes
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.Desiderius Erasmus
Courage mounteth with occasion.William Shakespeare, King John, II. i
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - At the age of 50, say - That a whole new life has opened before you.Agatha Christie
Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.Sir Thomas Browne, 1642
At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.Pearl Buck
A crisis does not always appear to a policymaker as a series of dramatic events. Usually it imposes itself as an exhausting agenda of petty chores demanding both concentration and endurance.Henry Kissinger, Years of Upheaval
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Many people have died for their beliefs? The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon.
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
Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinite variety other women cloyThe appetites they feed, but she makes hungryWhere most she satisfies.William Shakespeare
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.George Eliot
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.Whitheead
The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.James Taylo
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.Author Unknown
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.Tom Stoppard
Marriage is based on the theory that when man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go work in the brewery.George Jean Nathan
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.Sydney Harris
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.A. C. Benson
There is one and only one social responsibility of business - To use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.Milton Friedman
It used to take courage - - Indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence - - To leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home.Alvaro de Solva
I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment - - But if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. A Tramp Abroad, 1880.Mark Twain
No man is truly great, who is great only in his life - Time. The test of greatness is the page of history.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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 true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.Albert Einstein
Our government sprang from and was made for the people - - Not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.Andrew Johnson
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.Mark Twain
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.Demosthenes
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 pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.Democritus
Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.Joubert
Every women needs at least 4 animals. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass that pays for everything.Paris Hilton
It takes a village to raise an idiot.William Dukane
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.Ralph W. Sockman
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.George Sand
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.Plato
