Age Quotes
A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.Max Weinreich
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.A. A. Milne
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.George Santayana
What is important - what lasts - In another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.Peter Brodie
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.Bertie Forbes
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.Maya Angelou
This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.Euripides
Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life.Margaret Lowenfeld
Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.Herman Melville, Moby Dick
When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - Say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - It is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
In marriage, being the right person is as important as finding the right person.Wilbert Donald Gough
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.
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.Samuel Johnson
In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him."Aqualung" - Jethro Tull
Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined....Leo C. Rosten
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear.Mark Twain
I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in the making, but shall draw its materials largely from the annual produce of the fields.Henry Ford, 1934
Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.Bhagavad Gita
To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.Bernard M. Baruch, 1940
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.Roland Barthes, Esprit
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.Mel Brooks
Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - The image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.Ansel Adams
It is about a socialist, anti - Family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.Pat Robertson, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.Dr. Karl Bowman
There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.Colette
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.Sir Winston Churchill
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the faade of his appearance.Jean Iris Murdoch
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.Thomas Edison
Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.Red Skelton
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.G. K. Chesterton
Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.Author Unknown
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.Henry David Thoreau
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
All of our dreams can come true - - If we have the courage to pursue them.Walt Disney
