Age Quotes
We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.Henry David Thoreau
The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.Thomas Carlyle, Proflies in Courage by: John F. Kennedy
It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one from another; therefore, let all take heed as to the society in which they mingle, for in a little while they will be like it.Rule of Life
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
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
Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.Sydney Harris
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.George Eliot
Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.Mark Twain
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.Plutarch
Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.H. Mumford Jones
No country can be described as free - But each has different degrees of bondage.Agatha Christie, Appointment with Death
Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.MG Siriam
Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.J. Martin Kohe
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone all leave it alone.Thomas De Quincey
The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.Hyman Rickove
Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language?Ernest Thompson Seton
Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.Saint Francis of Assisi
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.Van Wyck Brooks
If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time.Benito Mussolini, The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism, 1935
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.Desiderius Erasmus
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.Robert Burton
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.Henry Ford
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.Demosthenes, First Olynthiac
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.Clive Staples Lewis
Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.Henry David Thoreau
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.Sydney Smith
Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.Christina Baldwin
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
What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful It is the simple things that make the difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self - Respect, and the courage of conviction.David L Boren
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.Annie Dillard
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.Russell Green
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.Horace Smith
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.Samuel Johnson
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.Benjamin Disraeli
In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.Ralph Waldo Emerson
