Age Quotes
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager.William S. Burroughs
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.Henry David Thoreau
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.Anonymous
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.Virginia Woolf
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what youre doing, or it comes out flat. You cant fake your way through this.Real Live Preache
Rigidly organized pre - School classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self - Image of marginality and failure.Valerie Polakow
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Old age is not a disease - It is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.Samuel Johnson
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.Thucydides
Just because you love someone doesn? t mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, February 16, 2004
Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.Vicki Baum
It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.Sophocles, Ajax
Music is the soul of language.Max Heindel
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.Gaston Bachelard
To hate a man because he was born in another country, because he speaks a different language, or because he takes a different view of this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human... Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity.John Comenius
People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.William Bennet Munro
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951
Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language?Ernest Thompson Seton
There is one and only one social responsibility of business - To use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.Milton Friedman
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.William Shakespeare
The truth of the matter is that window management under X is not yet well understood.The "Xlib Programming Manual".
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.Sir Harold George Nicolson
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.Henry Adams
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
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.Jean Paul Richte
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.Sir Thomas Browne
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.Pinda
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.Robert Oxton Bolt
It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.Robert Green Ingersoll
Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.Dr. Karl Bowman
Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.Joe Gores
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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
Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don? t mind, it doesn? t matter.Satchel Paige
