Age Quotes
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aidthem to judge for themselves.William Ellery Channing
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.Hamilton Wright Mabi
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
The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.Portuguese - Jewish Wedding Ceremony
Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.Vicki Baum
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so jointed that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.Logan Pearsall Smith
Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.David Ben - Gurion
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.Thomas Edison
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.Horace Walpole
The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things have their beginnings but the seed never explains the flower.Edith Hamilton
The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies an accident going to happen.John Sloan Dickey
Courage mounteth with occasion.William Shakespeare, King John, II. i
Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.Christopher Morley
I know some good marriages - - Marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.Erica Jong
Playing football in the morning is like eating cabbage for breakfast.Pressbox Maxim
I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in the making, but shall draw its materials largely from the annual produce of the fields.Henry Ford, 1934
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.Clare Booth Luce
They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, We shall remember them.Laurence Binyen
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.Clement Stone
Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.William James
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.J. K. Rowling
Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.Henri de Montherlant
Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.Sir Thomas Browne, 1642
Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies (1981)
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
We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.Tom Stoppard, Rosencranz And Guildenstern Are Dead
My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.Rodney Dangerfield
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.Francis Bacon
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.Author Unknown
Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.Erma Bombeck
Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.Dan Quayle
What is it the Bible teaches us? - Rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945
Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.Julian Weber Gordon
