Age Quotes

Oscar wilde, quoted in ellmann - it often happens that the real tragedies in life...
God created sex. Priests created marriage.
Voltaire
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
Walter Ke
Adolescence is the stage between infancy and adultery.
Unknown
Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle Old Age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli
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
Aristotle - education is the best provision for the journey...
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
It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one from another; therefore, let all take heed as to the society in which they mingle, for in a little while they will be like it.
Rule of Life
I know why the caged bird sings.
Maya Angelou, Quoting a lyric by Paul Laurence Dunba
The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.
Eugene Debs
Johann von goethe - love grants in a moment what toil can hardly...
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
Leszezynski Stanislaus
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
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
Elizabeth Harrison
England and America are two countries seperated by the same language.
George Bernard Shaw
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.
William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 2 scene 2
Courage is being scared to death - But saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
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
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003
God pays, but not weekly wages.
Polish Prove
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
Ronald Reagan
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
Erma Bombeck
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown.
William Shakespeare
A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.
Fontenelle
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
Casey Stengel
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
Russell Green
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
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
Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.
Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.
Courage may be taught as a child is taught to speak.
Euripides
Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.
Mary Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, A Memoi
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - Every day begin the task anew.
Saint Francis de Sales
We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.
Alison Lurie
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
Johann von Goethe
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi
Courage mounteth with occasion.
William Shakespeare, King John, II. i