Age Quotes

Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

Hellen Kelle

How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown.

William Shakespeare

We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.

Aldous Huxley

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

Albert Einstein

Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

Maya Angelou

I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever.

Greg Proops

Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.

Demosthenes, First Olynthiac

Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self - Distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.

Author Unknown

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

William Butler Yeats

The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.

Sir Winston Churchill

It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one from another; therefore, let all take heed as to the society in which they mingle, for in a little while they will be like it.

Rule of Life

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Peter Drucke

Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone all leave it alone.

Thomas De Quincey

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

Henry Ford

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Lloyd Alexande

Religion is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.

Theodore Herman Albert Dreise

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

Sir W. Temple

Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Beverly Nichols

Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.

Jane E. Brody

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Sophocles, Antigone

Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.

Quentin Crisp

The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.

Neil Postman

Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not. knows no release from little things.

Amelia Earhart Putnam

The most essential factor is persistence - The determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

James Whitcomb Riley

Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

On marriage Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.

Estee Laude

I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Leon Blum

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.

Joe Gores

Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.

Henry Adams

What business strategy is all about; what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning - Is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.

Keniche Ohnae

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

George Orwell

Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life.

Margaret Lowenfeld