Age Quotes

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

Pearl S. Buck

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.

Orson Scott Card

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Charles Caleb Colton

This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.

Victoria Lincoln

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

The stage lost a fine actor, just as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dr. John H. Watson, referring to Sherlock Holmes, in "A Scandal in Bohemia".

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

The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

Most men who are not married by the age of thirty - Five are either homosexual or really smart.

Becky Rodenbeck

At age 50, every man has the face he deserves.

George Orwell

The shortage of student loans may require... divestiture of certain sorts - Stereo divestiture, automobile divestiture, three - weeks - At - The - Beach divestiture.

William John Bennett

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

Robert Benchley

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.

Francois de Fenelon

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

Logan Pearsall Smith

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournie

A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.

Lao - Tzu

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

Henri de Montherlant

Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

Kahlil Gibran

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Thomas Edison

These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the devil.

Kara Vichko

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Samuel Goldwyn

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The people that one bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses.

Juvenal

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill - Advised marriages than from virginity.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.

Julian Weber Gordon

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

Judith Rossne

We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

Maxwell Maltz

A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.

Author Unknown

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

B. A. Billingsly

Success is that old ABC - - Ability, breaks, and courage.

Charles Luckman

Having a thirteen - Year - Old in the family is like having a general - Admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen - Agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

Max Lerne

How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown.

William Shakespeare

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

Clark Gable, Gone With the Wind

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

William Blake

Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

H. Mumford Jones