Age Quotes
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.Walter Lippmann
Playing football in the morning is like eating cabbage for breakfast.Pressbox Maxim
The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.Maria Edgeworth
No country can be described as free - But each has different degrees of bondage.Agatha Christie, Appointment with Death
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.Christopher Fry
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.Abraham Lincoln
Silence will not betray your thoughts but the expression on your face will. Humor has a hundred faces tragedy only a few.H. G. Mendelson
Perhaps in time the so - Called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.Sophocles
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.Daniel Webste
The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.Wilson Mizne
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.Voltaire
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.Albert Einstein, quoted in New York Times, March 13, 1940
The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.Marcel Proust
I know why the caged bird sings.Maya Angelou, Quoting a lyric by Paul Laurence Dunba
Dans ce pays - Ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. In this country England it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. from Candide.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.D. H. Lawrence
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self - Interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self - Love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.Adam Smith
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever.Greg Proops
Age does not make us childish, as some say it only finds us true children still.Johann von Goethe
Courage is knowing what not to fear.Plato
There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.Samuel Johnson
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.Samuel Johnson
Courage is found in unlikely places.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.Aristotle
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.Otto von Bismark
The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.Eugene Debs
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.Joseph Stalin
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.William Shakespeare
Many people have died for their beliefs? The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon.
The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003
Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.Margaret Atwood
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.Dale Carnegie
At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.Pearl Buck
Some people think only intellect counts knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.Dean Koontz
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.Peter Drucke
