Age Quotes
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.Bruce Barton
Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.Herman Melville, Moby Dick
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language.... We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a common goal of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.Ron Wild
Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.George Burton Adams
By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.William Carlos Williams
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.Vincent Van Gogh
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.Alford
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.Author Unknown
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.Seneca
The Net interprets censorship as damage... and routes around it.John Gilmore
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.Henry David Thoreau
Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.Field Marshall John French
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)
The Net interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it.John Gilmore
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.Peter De Vries
At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.Benjamin Franklin
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.Felix Adle
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.Joachim du Bellay
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.Heywood
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.Mark Twain
We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.Eric Hoffe
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.J. R. R. Tolkien
Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don? t mind, it doesn? t matter.Satchel Paige
Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination.Mark Twain
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
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
I have three treasures. Guard and keep them: The first is deep love, The second is frugality, And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world. Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.Reinhold Niebuh
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.Charlie Chaplin
Religion is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.Theodore Herman Albert Dreise
I am is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that I do is the longest sentence?George Carlin
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.W. Somerset Maugham
Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.Calvin Trillin
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941
