Age Quotes

I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value,

Walt Whitman

One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.

William Shatner as Kirk, in "Dagger of the Mind".

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Erica Jong

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

William Ellery Channing

The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether.

Steve Martini

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Raymond Chandle

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

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Andrew A. Rooney

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

Sir James Glove

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

George Burns

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

Henry David Thoreau

Be positive in addressing the envelope to your future, For enclosed are your efforts from the past. Be certain of the postage and double check what class.

Unknown

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

Demosthenes

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.

George Santayana

Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.

MG Siriam

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

Walter Ke

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, Sonnet de Regrets

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies (1981)

There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.

Lillian Eichler Watson

Go around asking a lot of damfool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them.

Clarence Birdseye

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

Hellen Kelle

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.

Henry Louis Mencken

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

Mark Twain

To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.

Confucius

The wine seems to be very closed - In and seems to have entered a dumb stage. Sort of a Marcel Meursault.

Paul S. Winalski

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.

George Santayana

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

George Will

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - They neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.

Imam Ali - Ibn - Abi - Talib, Nahjul - Balgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no1

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

E. Joseph Crossman

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.

Unknown

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

We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

Maxwell Maltz

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.

Thomas Jefferson