Age Quotes
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.Woody Allen
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.W. B. Yeats
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.Wendell Phillips
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.Hellen Kelle
In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.Henry David Thoreau
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.Roosevelt, Eleano
He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds.Michael Dorris
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.Mark Twain
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.Victor Hugo
Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.Helen Rowland
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?Logan Pearsall Smith
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.Herbert Kaufman
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.Johann von Goethe
Perhaps in time the so - Called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.George Herbert Walker Bush
Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.Sri Madhava
There is one universal gesture that has one universal message - - A smile.Valerie Sokolosky
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.George Santayana
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
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.H. L. Mencken
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.Paul Valery
Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.J. G. Gallimore
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.Matthew Arnold
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.Jane Austen
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife, Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life, Is worth an age without name.Thomas Osbert Mordaunt
The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.Eugene Debs
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.Jacques Deval
Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.General Robert E. Lee
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.Albert Einstein
Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing.Gyles Lytton Sitrachy
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.Ludwig Wittgenstein
Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is, but let us consider the two possibilities. If you gain, you gain all if you lose you lose nothing. Hesitate not, then, to wager that He is.Blaise Pascal
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.John D. MacDonald
In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food - Outside are only great stretches of freedom.Nicanor Parra
Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.Theodore Ledyard Cuyle
