Age Quotes

He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.

Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954

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

Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.

Anonymous

Age withers only the outside.

Author Unknown

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

Walter Scott

During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - They neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.

Imam Ali - Ibn - Abi - Talib, Nahjul - Balgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no1

I know why the caged bird sings.

Maya Angelou, Quoting a lyric by Paul Laurence Dunba

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

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'

Dorothy Parke

The stream of thought flows on but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.

William James

It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage - Earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.

Pope Pius XI

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

Norman Douglas

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - Never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle - Aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

I. F. Stone

Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many.

Publilius Syrus

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

Oscar Wilde

The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.

Abbe Guillaume Raynal

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.

John Simon

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, Speech in Chicago, 3 Apr. 1903

Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.

Solon

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

Unknown

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

David Ben - Gurion

Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Beverly Nichols

Ours is the age of substitutes instead of language, we have jargon instead of principles, slogans and instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

Eric Bentley

It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu

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

Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Jane Harrison

On marriage Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.

Estee Laude

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

Joseph Addison

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Benjamin Disraeli

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

Henry Ford

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.

William Pitt

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Robert Albert Bloch