Age Quotes

Alexander hamilton - men often oppose a thing merely because they have...
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
Jean Cocteau
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
Dietrich Bonhoeffe
If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.
Alan King
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw
Successful... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.
Walter Lippmann
In human relations a little language goes farther than a little of almost anything else. Whereas one language now often makes a wall, two can make a gate.
Walter V. Kaulfers, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
Oscar Wilde
Politics should be the part - Time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
Lucille Ball
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists".
Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.
Benjamin Disraeli
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you? re doing, or it comes out flat. You can? t fake your way through this.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 29, 2004
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
Thomas Fulle
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!
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
William Blake
Duty, then, is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.
Robert E. Lee
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
B. A. Billingsly
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson
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
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
Joseph Conrad
Thirty - Five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty - Five for years.
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 3
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
Hamilton Wright Mabi
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
Annie Dillard
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
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In producers, loafing is productive and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.
Jacques Martin Barzun
The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labelled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions.
W. J. Reichmann
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Henry Kissinge
In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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
I stopped believing in Santa Claus at age six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph.
Shirley Temple Black
The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.
Ernest Hemingway
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Aristotle
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Maurice Chevalie