Age Quotes

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

Richard Lovelace, To Althea from Prison

There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

Samuel Johnson

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.

Lao Tzu

When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.

Walter Lippmann

The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.

Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.

Machiavelli

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.

William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 2 scene 2

Be strong and of good courage be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

Joshua 19 Bible

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

Van Wyck Brooks

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

G. K. Chesterton

Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.

Keith Bostic

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

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

Joseph Stalin

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.

Leon Trotsky

There are two messages from theory of Karma. Our condition in this life is determined by our deeds in previous life. We must do good in this life to improve our conditions in next life.

B. J. Gupta

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

Logan Pearsall Smith

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies against despots - - Suspicion.

Demosthenes

Someone asked Sophocles, How do you feel now about sex Are you able to have a woman He replied, Hush man most gladly indeed am I rid off it all, as though I had escaped from a mad and savage master.

Sophocles

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

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

Russell Green

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - Every day begin the task anew.

Saint Francis de Sales

Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. ... He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.

Jean Nathan Mille

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Alfred North Whitehead

On that day let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that all their efforts shall not have been in vain.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Augustine, (AD 354 - 430)

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

James F. Clarke

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

Galileo Galilei

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.

James Russell Lowell

Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.

Jean Cocteau

I am about to put foward some major ideas they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely a few will in some sort, then, I shall have contributed to the progress of our age, and shall be content.

Marquis de Sade

He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.

Ren G. Torres

There is one and only one social responsibility of business - To use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

Milton Friedman

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.

Gloria Steinem