Age Quotes

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud, tractate Gittin

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

Johann von Goethe

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Confucius

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Bertrand Russell

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Horace Smith

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.

Bill Clinton, announcement of Next Generation Internet initiative, 1996