Age Quotes

Portuguese - jewish wedding ceremony - the ritual of marriage is not simply a social...
Noam chomsky, ruth anshen, biography of an idea (mt. kisco, ny: moyer bell limited, 1986), pg. 196 - the structure of language determines not only...
Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - If they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.
John Oliver Hobbes
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittorio Alfieri
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken
At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first - Rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats.
Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Voltaire
The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.
Bruce Barton
I am about to put foward some major ideas they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely a few will in some sort, then, I shall have contributed to the progress of our age, and shall be content.
Marquis de Sade
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.
Jay Leno
Dans ce pays - Ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. In this country England it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. from Candide.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
Peter Drucke
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
No man is truly great, who is great only in his life - Time. The test of greatness is the page of history.
William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things have their beginnings but the seed never explains the flower.
Edith Hamilton
It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost....
Richard Bach
There is one and only one social responsibility of business - To use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.
Milton Friedman
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
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.
Anonymous
At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.
Benjamin Franklin
The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars.
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
The great leaders have always stage - Managed their effects.
Charles De Gaulle
I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.
Edmund Burke
The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.
William Bennet Munro
A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own.
Johann von Goethe
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
John Lyly
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
Benjamin Disraeli
Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.
Vicki Baum
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle - Aged men.
Kin Hubbard
the tragedy of life is not that we die, but is rather, what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitze
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
By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.
George W. Bush, Speech to the United Nations, September 12, 2002
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Evan Esa
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
Joan Baez
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Unknown
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson