Age Quotes
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.Cyril Connolly
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.Horace Walpole
The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980
Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.Henri de Montherlant
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.J. K. Rowling
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.Paul Hawken, Growing a Business
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.Francois de Fenelon
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.Oscar Wilde
Lord 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.Saint Francis of Assisi
Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremble... for the Lord, your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or forsake you.Bible, Deuteronomy 31: 6 NAS
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.Indian Prove
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.Henry Ford
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.W. Somerset Maugham
I have enjoyed greatly the second bloomingsuddenly you find - At the age of 50, say - That a whole new life has opened before you.Agatha Christie
Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost - Benefit calculations.John Kenneth Galbraith
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.Mark Twain
Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance.David Pratt
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.La Bruyere
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
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.Mark Twain
To me - Old age is always ten years older than I am.Andre Bernard Buruch
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.B. A. Billingsly
The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.Otto von Bismark
He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent - Infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination - - And taxes.H. E. Martz
The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.J. Michael Straczynski
The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.Andre Malraux
If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.Horace Bushnell
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.Heywood
The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.Peter De Vries
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.Lewis Thomas
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, Act 1 Scene 1
The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up at me as though I, too, were already caught a few feet above him in the strata and, in my turn, were staring upward at that strip of sky which the ages were carrying farther away from me.Loren
People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them.Anatole France
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.Anita Brookne
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
