Age Quotes

Cyril connolly - the dread of loneliness is greater than the fear...
Diane ackerman - it began in mystery, and it will end in mystery,...
There is nothing worse then a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
Ansel Adams
Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate As we voyage along through life, Tis the set of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Demosthenes - there is one safeguard known generally to the...
The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
J. Michael Straczynski
The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.
Wystan Hugh Auden
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy Adams
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
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
Unknown
In human relations a little language goes farther than a little of almost anything else. Whereas one language now often makes a wall, two can make a gate.
Walter V. Kaulfers, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George S. Patton
It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one from another; therefore, let all take heed as to the society in which they mingle, for in a little while they will be like it.
Rule of Life
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
By courage I repel adversity.
Anonymous
Courage is a special kind of knowledge the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.
David Ben - Gurion
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... it takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.
Indian Prove
There is one universal gesture that has one universal message - - A smile.
Valerie Sokolosky
I have three treasures. Guard and keep them The first is deep love, The second is frugality, And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world. Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.
Lao Tzu
No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.
Clifford Bax
Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities.
John A. Rassias
There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.
Cleveland Amory
There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.
Woody Allen
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One
It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
Sophocles
He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.
Ren G. Torres
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
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
Andrew A. Rooney
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
Frederick Buechne
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1882
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats
Courage is being scared to death - But saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.
Christopher Fry
We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.
Ellen Gilcrist