Age Quotes

Language is the dress of thought.
Samuel Johnson
Carl sandburg, new york times feb. 13, 1959 - slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves,...
Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.
Camille Paglia
The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.
Wystan Hugh Auden
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Ayn Rand
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.
Anonymous
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln
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, Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941
Pressbox maxim - playing football in the morning is like eating...
Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self - Righteous isolation.
John Dewey
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
Logan Pearsall Smith
Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Margaret Atwood
Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other.
James Grover Thurbe
Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.
George Bernard Shaw
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Plato
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
George Bancroft
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Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
Jeremy Taylo
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw
Never feel self - Pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Millicent Fenwick
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.
Henry Louis Mencken
The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Thomas Carlyle, Proflies in Courage by: John F. Kennedy
The average Ph. D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
J. Frank Dobie, "A Texan in England", 1945
Thought: why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only for food: frequently there must be a beverage.
Woody Allen, Without Feathers
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Victor Hugo
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison
Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.
W. C. Fields
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Augustine, (AD 354 - 430)
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
Sir Winston Churchill
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us put out more and better ideas if our efforts are truly appreciated.
Alexander Osborn
Consult your dragon before you wager his hide.
Melaine Rawn, Dragon Star 1: Stronghold
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
Henry David Thoreau
Age is no guarantee of maturity.
Lawana Blackwell
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
D. H. Lawrence
Pathos, piety, courage, ? they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, 1924
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
George Santayana