Age Quotes

An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

James Albert Michene

To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.

Russell L. Ackoff

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

Alfred Victor Vigny

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Peggy Noonan

Experience becomes possible because of language.

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

Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age, but they die young.

Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Benjamin Disraeli

What is it the Bible teaches us? - Rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.

Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.

Ogden Nash

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

B. A. Billingsly

The Dilbert Principle The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage - - Management.

Scott Adams

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

Larry Wall

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.

George Santayana

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom.

Greek Prove

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Erica Jong

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

Leon Blum

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

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

Plato

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

George Bernard Shaw

Our first responsibility is not to build the Church or even to get souls saved - - It is to represent Christ and to bring His message to the world. As God beholds us in Christ, so the world must behold Christ in us. As Christ represents us before the Father, so we must represent Christ before the world.

Cornelius Stam

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantages of others.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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

W. Kelly Griffith

There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

Peter Drucke

At age 50, every man has the face he deserves.

George Orwell

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

Robert South

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

Clarence Darrow

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

Stanislaus

The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter.

Sir Winston Churchill

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

Plato, The Republic

Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.

Agesilaus the Second

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Baltasar Gracian

It takes a village to raise an idiot.

William Dukane

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

Henri de Montherlant