Age Quotes

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
General colin powell - free speech is intended to protect the...
Good leadership consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefelle
It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.
Tom Lehre
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
Eric Hoffe
Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken.
Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing
The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.
Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
Jean Cocteau
Kin hubbard - boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle -...
It takes a village to raise an idiot.
William Dukane
Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.
Margo Kaufman
If we want a love message to be heard, it has to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Theresa
Most comics make jokes to defend themselves against what they see as a hostile and inhumane world often a deeply felt rage.
Samuel S. Janus
The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.
Kahlil Gibran
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
Josh Billings
The Net interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it.
John Gilmore
Steve martini - the problem most people have with resisting...
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.
Douglas Pagels, A Wonderful Resolution For The New Year!
Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.
Henry David Thoreau
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
Ovid
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
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
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.
Herbert Hoove
The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.
Bruce Barton
Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination.
Mark Twain
There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.
J. W. Alexande
It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.
Janos Arnay
It should be a very happy marriage - - - They are both so much in love with him.
Irene Thomas
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
Samuel Johnson
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
Seneca, Epistulae Morales
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
Age, health, and stage in life have nothing to do with serving or not serving. In each season of life there are attributes and qualities of life and experience that God values in service.
Bruce Kempe
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the others.
Miguel Cerbantes
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagne
I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.
Mario M Cuomo
Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
Lewis Thomas