Age Quotes

Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.

Jane E. Brody

Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.

Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon

Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

Lao Tzu

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.

Erica Jong

Middle age is when your age starts to show around the middle.

Bob Hope

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

George Washington

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

Ernest Hemingway

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.

J. W. Alexande

Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken.

Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.

Herbert Hoove

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Dale Carnegie

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.

Mario M Cuomo

Courage changes things for the better... With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.

Earl Nightingale

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.

Saint Augustine

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self - Interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self - Love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.

Adam Smith

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

Henry Ford

Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably togethe.

Clyde Kluckhohn

A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.

Fontenelle

Pathos, piety, courage, ? they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, 1924

Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Harry S Truman

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Plato

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - First to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Albert Camus

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - These are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

Jerome Seymour Brune

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

Plato, The Republic

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things Knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Amelia Earhart

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 27 - 04

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

Joseph Stalin

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such who are in the institution wish to get out and such as are out wish to get in.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.

Henry Adams

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

George Bernard Shaw

Peter Who am I You sure you want to know The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied.

Spider - Man