Age Quotes
Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin, so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that 45 between the teeth can get pretty strong at times, so why invite temptation.Andrew Schneide
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
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
When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it. Without the laugh, there is no Tao.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm.Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, German Ideology, Chapter 3
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
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
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.J. R. R. Tolkien
Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.Margo Kaufman
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.John Simon
The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.Vilhjlmur Stefnsson
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.Casey Stengel
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.Mark Twain
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.Mary Daly
Without justice courage is weak.Benjamin Franklin
There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.Lillian Eichler Watson
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.Joseph Stalin
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.Indian Prove
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.Jean Paul Richte
Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.John W. Gardne
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.Francois de Fenelon
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.Henry Ford
Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.Woody Allen
One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.William Shatner as Kirk, in "Dagger of the Mind".
It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.Samuel Smiles
Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.Confucius
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.Charles Schwa
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.Susan Taylo
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
All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.Walt Disney
The world is disgracefully managed one hardly knows to whom to complain.Ronald Firbank
Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I detest life - Insurance agents they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.Stephen Leacock
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.Charles Scribner, Jr.
I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in the making, but shall draw its materials largely from the annual produce of the fields.Henry Ford, 1934
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.Alford
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
