Age Quotes
Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle Old Age a regret.Benjamin Disraeli
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.Indian Prove
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill - Advised marriages than from virginity.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.Gaston Bachelard
Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.Harlan Mille
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.Jean Anouilh
The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.Abbe Guillaume Raynal
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.Mary Daly
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.Diane Ackerman
If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.French Prove
According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.Charles Richte
Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.Unknown
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
They say that the wages of sin is death. But after taxes its just a tired feeling really.Paula Poundstone, HBO stand - Up routine
Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age.Victor Hugo
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.Robert Benchley
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.Noah Webste
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.E. e. cummings
God pays, but not weekly wages.Polish Prove
The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.Ronald Firbank
The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever.Anatole France
Metric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight and measurement system, one world - All communist! We know the West was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile.Dean Krakel, Director of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame
A self - Balancing, 28 - Jointed adaptor - Based biped; an electro - Chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62, 000 miles of capillaries....R. Buckminster Fulle
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.Arthur Schopenhaue
The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.Vilhjlmur Stefnsson
How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.Ovid
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
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.Bruce Barton
Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.Gloria Steinem
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".
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high - Class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.Katharine Hepburn
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what youre doing, or it comes out flat. You cant fake your way through this.Real Live Preache
Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.William Golding
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003
