Age Quotes
The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses!Juvenal, Satires
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.William H. Mauldin
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.Plutarch
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.Eric Hoffer, "The True Believer", 1951
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.Henri - Frederic Amiel
One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our greed.Author Unknown
From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.Visions of Gregorian Chants
Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.William A. Smith, 1908
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.Benjamin Disraeli
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
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.James Madison, Federalist 10
The wine seems to be very closed - In and seems to have entered a dumb stage. Sort of a Marcel Meursault.Paul S. Winalski
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.Sainte - Beave
Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.J. Martin Kohe
This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.Victoria Lincoln
At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.Benjamin Franklin
The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - They have preservatives.Calvin Trillin
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.La Rochefoucauld
The Stone Age came to an end not for a lack of stone, and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil.Zaki Yamani, (chief architect of OPEC)
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.Victor Hugo
If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time.Benito Mussolini, The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism, 1935
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.George Washington Carve
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.Arnold Toynbee
Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.Theodore Ledyard Cuyle
Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.Beverly Nichols
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.Katharine Butler Hathaway
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.Joe Darion, "The Impossible Dream".
At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds.Michael Dorris
I detest life - Insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.Stephen Leacock
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything.Vincent Van Gogh
The shortage of student loans may require... divestiture of certain sorts - Stereo divestiture, automobile divestiture, three - weeks - At - The - Beach divestiture.William John Bennett
Successful... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.Walter Lippmann
The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980
All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.Jim Fiebig
I hate middle age. Too young for the bowling green, too old for Ecstasy.Ian Pattison, Rab C. Nesbitt, television series
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
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.J. B. Priestley
