Age Quotes

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. : -

Larry Wall in

Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

James Madison, Federalist 10

We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.

Arthur Schopenhaue

Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids.

Tim Bedore

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Reinhold Niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943

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 Pig, if I am not mistaken, Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon. Let others say his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig.

Ogden Nash, "The Pig".

Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.

Claude M. Bristol

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

George Orwell

Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.

Aristotle

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Thomas Jefferson

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self - Esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

Fritz Perls

The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.

Albert Schweitze

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

George Eliot

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

Theodore Harold White

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Henry James

I believe in the institution of marriage and I intend to keep trying until I get it right.

Richard Pryo

There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.

J. W. Alexande

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

French Prove

Playing football in the morning is like eating cabbage for breakfast.

Pressbox Maxim

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Andr Gide

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

Homer, The Odyssey

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

Walt Whitman

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus (1922)

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty - Five, she needs good looks. From thirty - Five to fifty - Five, she needs a good personality. From fifty - Five on, she needs good cash.

Sophie Tucke

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Charles Caleb Colton

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Maurice Chevalie

Courage is not the towering oak That sees storms come and go It is the fragile blossom That opens in the snow.

Alice Mackenzie Swaim

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Henry Adams

If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

George W. Bush

Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age.

Johann von Goethe

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

Warren Bennis

To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - And to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.

Karl von Bonstetten