Age Quotes
Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.Joe Gores
Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self - Righteous isolation.John Dewey
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.Andre Norton
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - - And in fact we have forgotten.Euripides
Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.Jane Wagne
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.Hyman Rickove
I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages henceTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I - - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.Robert Frost
It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu
Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.John Calvin
Most men who are not married by the age of thirty - Five are either homosexual or really smart.Becky Rodenbeck
Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.Unknown
We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.Alison Lurie
I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.Mario M Cuomo
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager.William S. Burroughs
You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed, And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse. For Is and Is - Not though with Rule and Line And Up - And - Down by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, I Was never deep in anything but - Wine.From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Translation by Edward Fitzgerald)
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill - Advised marriages than from virginity.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.H. L. Mencken
Marriage is based on the theory that when man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go work in the brewery.George Jean Nathan
Political language - And with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.George Orwell, 1946
I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.Oscar Wilde
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions.George Carlin, Napalm and Silly Putty
Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other.James Grover Thurbe
People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them.Anatole France
Courage mounteth with occasion.William Shakespeare, King John, II. i
One of the many ways of managing peers is to knock them down so heavily, whenever we find them on their wrong foot, that they loose the courage of raising their voice when we are wrong.B. J. Gupta
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.George Washington
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder - Storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.Thomas Mann
Age does not make us childish, as some say it only finds us true children still.Johann von Goethe
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.Maurice Chevalie
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.Bill Clinton, announcement of Next Generation Internet initiative, 1996
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we... remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular.Edward R. Murrow
In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space.Judith Stone
The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self - Reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.Henry Louis Mencken
