Age Quotes
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.Arnold Bennett
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager.William S. Burroughs
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".
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.Brendan Francis Behan
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.Robert Francis Kennedy
One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm.Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, German Ideology, Chapter 3
A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.Max Weinreich
Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.Christopher Morley
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.J. B. Priestley
Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.Harry S Truman
A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.John Ballantine Gough
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.Pico Iyer, Time
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.Jimmy Breslin
The wages of sin are unreported.Unknown
Adulthood is the ever - Shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.Thomas Szasz
Courage atrophies from lack of use.Unknown
We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.Ellen Gilcrist
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.George Washington Carve
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists".
From the age of six, I have known that I was sexy. And let me tell you it has been hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.Bette Davis
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.Jeanne Moreau
In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over - Organized generation of youngsters in our history.Eda J. Le Shan
Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.Frances Rodman
Be strong and of good courage be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.Joshua 19 Bible
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.Alfred North Whitehead
One man with courage makes a majority.Andrew Old Hickory Jackson
Thirty - Five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty - Five for years.Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 3
Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.Plato
If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.Alan King
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.Henry Ward Beeche
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.Van Wyck Brooks
No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - - I mean the wages of decent living.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.Benjamin Franklin
In youth we learn; in age we understand.Ebner - Eschenbach
The scientific theroy I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.Mark Russell
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager.William S. Burroughs
Life is a tragedy when seen in close - Up, but a comedy in long - Shot.Charlie Chaplin
