Age Quotes
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.Plutarch
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.Aldous Huxley
Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.Julian Weber Gordon
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.Albert Einstein
An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.Hoshang N. Akhta
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
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.George Bernard Shaw
All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776
Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself.Franz Xavier Kroetz
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.Thomas Edison
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.Lyste
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
Any new venture goes through the following stages: enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and decoration of those who did nothing.Unknown
The most essential factor is persistence - The determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.James Whitcomb Riley
True love is not rare at the age of a teen, but recognizing it as true love is.Brad Bell
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
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
Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.Marion Howard
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.Henry David Thoreau
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.Author Unknown
Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.Ronald Reagan
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".
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
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.Jean Cocteau
Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin, so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that 45 between the teeth can get pretty strong at times, so why invite temptation.Andrew Schneide
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
A venturesome minority will always be eager to get off on their own... let them take risks, for Godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - That is the right and privilege of any free American.16 Idaho Law Review 407, 420 - 1980.
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.Calvin Coolidge
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.Mel Brooks
Whoever has the greatest command of the language, holds the power.Susan Johnson
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.Horace Walpole
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.Mark Twain
Every women needs at least 4 animals. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass that pays for everything.Paris Hilton
