Age Quotes

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus, Trinummus

Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.

George W. Bush

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

Annie Dillard

Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half - Baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Music is the soul of language.

Max Heindel

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Publilius Syrus

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money

If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.

Rob Brown

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

H. L. Mencken

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

Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.

Field Marshall John French

A self - Balancing, 28 - Jointed adaptor - Based biped; an electro - Chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62, 000 miles of capillaries....

R. Buckminster Fulle

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

Otto von Bismark

What is important - what lasts - In another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.

Peter Brodie

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

John Lyly

Marriage is based on the theory that when man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go work in the brewery.

George Jean Nathan

He altered the image of the Jew from that of rabbi, merchant, wanderer, to that of scientist, farmer and soldier.

Shimon Peres

Perhaps in time the so - Called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.

Vicki Baum

Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.

Thomas Troward

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.

William Shakespeare

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

Sir James Glove

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

Casey Stengel

We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.

C. C. Colton

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - - The things we live by and teach our children - - Are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Walt Disney

Many people have died for their beliefs? The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.

Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon.

Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.

Ronald Reagan

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

James Abram Garfield

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.

Bill Clinton, announcement of Next Generation Internet initiative, 1996

True love is not rare at the age of a teen, but recognizing it as true love is.

Brad Bell

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

Eric Hoffe

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

That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

Thomas Carlyle

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

Ralph W. Sockman

There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

Colette

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

I think on - Stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

Shelley Winters

To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Bernard M. Baruch, 1940