Age Quotes

Zaki yamani, (chief architect of opec) - the stone age came to an end not for a lack of...
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Andre Maurois
J. lawton collins - no matter how brilliant a man may be, he will...
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
Candice Bergen
I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
Helena Rubinstein
Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinite variety other women cloyThe appetites they feed, but she makes hungryWhere most she satisfies.
William Shakespeare
One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.
William Shatner as Kirk, in "Dagger of the Mind".
You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Voltaire
When you have a child, the world has a hostage.
Ernest Hemingway
Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.
V? lcav Havel, parade, Times Picayune
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
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first - Class management.
Senator Soape
Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.
John W. Gardne
Courage mounteth with occasion.
William Shakespeare, King John, II. i
We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.
Henry David Thoreau
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Maya Angelou
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.
General Colin Powell
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Stephen Covey
A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain.
Author Unknown
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
Joseph Conrad
the tragedy of life is not that we die, but is rather, what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitze
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert G. Ingersoll
The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.
Ronald Firbank
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally.
Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign ministe
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Fran Lebowitz
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas, Collected poems (1952)
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage - - It can be delightful.
George Bernard Shaw
The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
Larry Wall
It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
Robert Green Ingersoll
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
Lily Tomlin
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
The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort - He never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.
Arnold Bennett
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
Babylonian Talmud, tractate Gittin
Just because you love someone doesn? t mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.
Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, February 16, 2004
I speak BASIC to clients, 1 - 2 - 3 to management, and mumble to myself.
Anon.