Age Quotes
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.George Bernard Shaw
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.Robert Louis Stevenson
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.Roosevelt, Eleano
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.Joe Darion, "The Impossible Dream".
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the faade of his appearance.Jean Iris Murdoch
It marriage happens as with cages the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to getting out.D. A. Battista
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
In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.Ernest Hemingway
By courage I repel adversity.Anonymous
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.Henry David Thoreau
The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.Andre Malraux
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.Reinhold Niebuh
England and America are two countries seperated by the same language.George Bernard Shaw
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.Charles Caleb Colton
The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.Bruce Barton
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, 1697, act III scene 8
Marriage love, honor, and negotiate.Joe Moore
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.Abraham Lincoln
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.Bertrand Russell
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.John W. Gardne
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.John Quincy Adams
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
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.Hoshang N. Akhta
On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.Anita Loos
Nature has perfection, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image.Blaise Pascal
Time is the image of eternity.Laertius Diogenes
History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.George W. Bush
Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance.David Pratt
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.Alphonse Ka
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.Paul Hawken, Growing a Business
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.Black Hawk
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
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, An Autobiography, 1977
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.Andre Norton
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.Andrew A. Rooney
