Age Quotes
The stage lost a fine actor, just as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dr. John H. Watson, referring to Sherlock Holmes, in "A Scandal in Bohemia".
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong - - Because someday you will have been all of these.George Washington Carve
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - - Bureaucrats.Alvin Toffle
Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.Author Unknown
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.Miguel de Cervantes
One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.William Shatner as Kirk, in "Dagger of the Mind".
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.Dr. Dale E. Turne
Question with boldness even the existance of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.Thomas Jefferson
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.Mark Twain
I am part of the sea and stars And the winds of the South and North Of mountains and Moon and Mars, And the ages sent me forth.Edward H. S. Terry
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
Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.William Faulkne
No country can be described as free - But each has different degrees of bondage.Agatha Christie, Appointment with Death
History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.George W. Bush
Duty, then, is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.Robert E. Lee
It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.Homer, The Odyssey
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.George Bernard Shaw
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
Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe
One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children - - Unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide - And - Seek.Bill Cosby, Time Flies
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.Robert G. Ingersoll
If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.Horace Bushnell
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.Seneca
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. ... We have truly entered the century of the educated man.Lyndon B. Johnson
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.Thomas Fulle
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.J. R. R. Tolkien
Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.Sir Walter Besant
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
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.Erica Jong
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.Charles Caleb Colton
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity so have some little frocks but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.Dorothy L. Sayers
Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself.Franz Xavier Kroetz
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.Corra Harris
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.Whitney M. Young Jr.
