Age Quotes
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.Frederick Buechne
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.Voltaire
Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.Robert Louis Stevenson
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.Joseph Stalin
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.Reinhold Niebuh
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.Vince Lombardi
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak.Francois La Rochefoucauld
The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.Marshall McLuhan
If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.Rob Brown
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.James Madison, Federalist 10
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.Author Unknown
Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.Johnson
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
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone all leave it alone.Thomas De Quincey
When one has nothing left to lose one becomes courageous. We are timid only when we have something left to cling to.Don Juan Matus, The Second Ring Of Power by Carlos Castaneda
Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.H. L. Mencken
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.Benjamin Lee Whorf
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, Act 1 Scene 1
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.Quintilian
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world - Art, or philosophy, or learning - Regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.Freya Stark
The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.Lao Tzu
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
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.Florence Shinn
Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.Plato
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.Eleanor Rosevelt
When in doubt, do the courageous thing.Jan Smuts
I came from a disadvantaged home. They were Republicans.Paul Tsongas, campaigning in New Hampshire
Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.H. L. Mencken
Not every age is fit for childish sports.Titus Maccius Plautus
Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people.Unknown
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
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.Felix Adle
Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.Henry Adams
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There are two messages from theory of Karma. Our condition in this life is determined by our deeds in previous life. We must do good in this life to improve our conditions in next life.B. J. Gupta
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.Robert South
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read.Mark Twain
