Age Quotes

All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.

Jim Fiebig

The medium is the message.

Marshall McLuhan

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

Eric Hoffe

Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity.

W. Kelly Griffith

When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools.

William Shakespeare

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.

Firmianus Lactantius

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

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Kim Hubbard

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

Cicero

As was his language so was his life.

Seneca

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

Saying we should keep the two - Party political system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.

Eugene McCarthy

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

Jeff Marde

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

Galileo Galilei

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - Never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.

Gilda Radne

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

James Abram Garfield

The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

Albert Einstein

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Stephen Hawking

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Wystan Hugh Auden

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Abraham Lincoln

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Bruce Barton

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

Peter Ustinov

I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Leon Blum

The scientific theroy I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

Mark Russell

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

Clark Gable, Gone With the Wind

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Herbert Marshall McLuhan

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile nothing endures except the sense of difference.

Alan Valentine

Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half - Baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

Plato

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

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

Doug Larson

The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies an accident going to happen.

John Sloan Dickey

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

Oswald Mosley

It should be a very happy marriage - - - They are both so much in love with him.

Irene Thomas

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.

Eric Hoffer, "The True Believer", 1951

I believe in the institution of marriage and I intend to keep trying until I get it right.

Richard Pryo