Age Quotes
Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.Augustine, (AD 354 - 430)
Our government sprang from and was made for the people - - Not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.Andrew Johnson
My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.Josh Billings
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.Sir Thomas Browne
Success is that old ABC - - Ability, breaks, and courage.Charles Luckman
The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1882
Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.Alfred Victor Vigny
Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college.Tom Masson
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.Mary Daly
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.Peter Drucke
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.William Shakespeare
Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.Robert Brault
BASIC - A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company.Anon.
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.H. L. Mencken
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high - Class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.Katharine Hepburn
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
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.
Adulthood is the ever - Shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.Thomas Szasz
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.Walter Lippmann
Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not. knows no release from little things.Amelia Earhart Putnam
Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.Dr. Karl Bowman
The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.Bruce Barton
However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.Henry David Thoreau
The scientific theroy I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.Mark Russell
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.George Bernard Shaw
American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.Jacques Deval
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.Francois de Fenelon
For it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.Alexander Hamilton
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
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.J. B. Priestley
From the age of six, I have known that I was sexy. And let me tell you it has been hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.Bette Davis
It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age.Ralph Waldo Emerson
