Age Quotes

I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in the making, but shall draw its materials largely from the annual produce of the fields.

Henry Ford, 1934

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

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Socrates, In "Apology, " sct. 21, by Plato.

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.

V? lcav Havel, parade, Times Picayune

Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Plato

English is the easiest language to speak badly.

George Bernhard Shaw

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

George Eliot, Middlemarch

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Victor Hugo

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

John Howe

That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

Thomas Carlyle

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Eric Hoffe

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

In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food - Outside are only great stretches of freedom.

Nicanor Parra

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

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

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

Doug Larson

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

Erma Bombeck

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

Ronald Reagan

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

George Bernard Shaw

Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

Henry David Thoreau

The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon. Let others say his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig.

Ogden Nash, "The Pig".

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

William Ellery Channing

People fo privilage will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

John Kenneth Galbraith

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

Benjamin Franklin

Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.

W. C. Fields

The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.

Wilson Mizne

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

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

Van Wyck Brooks

I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.

Lindsay Lohan

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

Sir James Glove

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Delmore Schwartz

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

Johann von Goethe

Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - The image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.

Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe