Age Quotes

No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.
H. L. Mencken
Euripides - this is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly...
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
A. C. Benson
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
Desiderius Erasmus
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
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.
George Du Maurie
Brendan francis behan - courage is the ladder on which all the other...
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language.... We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a common goal of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.
Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.
George Bernard Shaw
Henry ford - there is one rule for the industrialist and that...
Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.
Dr. Karl Bowman
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Henry Adams
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
Seneca, Epistulae Morales
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato
The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.
John Updike
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
D. H. Lawrence
Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
George Bernard Shaw
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
H. L. Mencken
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.
Francis Bacon
I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
Jane Wagne
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
When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Russell Green
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
Rigidly organized pre - School classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self - Image of marginality and failure.
Valerie Polakow
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Charlie Chaplin
He altered the image of the Jew from that of rabbi, merchant, wanderer, to that of scientist, farmer and soldier.
Shimon Peres
I know why the caged bird sings.
Maya Angelou, Quoting a lyric by Paul Laurence Dunba
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
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Stephen Hawking
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
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
Jean Anouilh
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Unknown
Marriage is the wastepaper basket of the emotions.
Leon Botstein
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.
John Simon
The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon. Let others say his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig.
Ogden Nash, "The Pig".
I am part of the sea and stars And the winds of the South and North Of mountains and Moon and Mars, And the ages sent me forth.
Edward H. S. Terry
Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field - work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.
Robert Graves
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy