Age Quotes
Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.Mark Twain
What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful It is the simple things that make the difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self - Respect, and the courage of conviction.David L Boren
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.Abraham Lincoln
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.Titus Maccius Plautus, Trinummus
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.W. Somerset Maugham
We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.Benjamin Disraeli
BASIC - A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company.Anon.
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.George Bernard Shaw
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.Albert Einstein
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.William Shakespeare
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
Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.Maya Angelou
Marriage love, honor, and negotiate.Joe Moore
Courage mounteth with occasion.William Shakespeare, King John, II. i
The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.Albert Einstein
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.Sydney Smith
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.J. B. Priestley
To me - Old age is always ten years older than I am.Andre Bernard Buruch
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.John Irving, _The Cider House Rules_ (1985)
Religion is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.Theodore Herman Albert Dreise
Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.Unknown
At age 50, every man has the face he deserves.George Orwell
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.Mark Twain
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.Tom Stoppard
It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force...Peter F. Drucker, People and Performance
This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.Euripides
The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom He knows himself but does not display himself He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.Lao Tzu
On marriage Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.Estee Laude
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 4 scene 3
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.Denis Diderot
Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.Alexander Clark
All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.Arthur Schopenhaue
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.Henry Louis Mencken
It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.Paul Tournie
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.Johann von Goethe
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.Conte Vittorio Alfieri
