Age Quotes
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
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations and suddenly find - At the age of fifty, say - That a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about... It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.Agatha Christie
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1, 000 years. To read is to voyage through time.Carl Sagan
You will have more fun on your vacation if you maintain a mental age of 18 or less. Act just old enough to make your travel connections and stay out of trouble.Joe Schwartz
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.G. K. Chesterton
I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.Edmund Burke
There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.Robert Elwood Bly
Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids.Tim Bedore
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.Pearl Buck
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.Mark Twain
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.Stanislaus
To endure the cross is not tragedy it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.Plato
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.Sainte - Beave
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.George Du Maurie
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.George Santayana
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.Cicero
Carthago delenda est. Carthage must be destroyed.Marcius Porcius Cato
Time is the image of eternity.Laertius Diogenes
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.Paul Johannes Tillich
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.Erica Jong
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.Unknown
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 strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.George Washington Carve
At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.Benjamin Franklin
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.Jean Cocteau
Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don? t mind, it doesn? t matter.Satchel Paige
An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.Hoshang N. Akhta
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.William Feathe
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.Dr. Joyce Brothers
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.Charles Caleb Colton
There is a homely old adage which runs Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.Theodore Roosevelt
Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward.John Mortimer, The Observer (1999)
We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.Tom Stoppard, Rosencranz And Guildenstern Are Dead
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.Lillian Eichler Watson
