Age Quotes

Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless, noisy baggage behind.

Jed Babbin, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm - Blooded to fall into this vice.

Abraham Lincoln

They say that the wages of sin is death. But after taxes its just a tired feeling really.

Paula Poundstone, HBO stand - Up routine

The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other.

Henry Kissinge

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Sir Thomas Browne

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Erica Jong

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Henry Louis Mencken

There is nothing worse then a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Ansel Adams

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

Plutarch

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.

General Colin Powell

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Jane Wagne

The stream of thought flows on but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.

William James

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

David Ben - Gurion

This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you? re doing, or it comes out flat. You can? t fake your way through this.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 29, 2004

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.

Mark Twain

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so jointed that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

Martin Luthe

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Benjamin Disraeli

Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin, so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that 45 between the teeth can get pretty strong at times, so why invite temptation.

Andrew Schneide

Without justice courage is weak.

Benjamin Franklin

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Seneca

All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.

Jim Fiebig

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu

Good leadership consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

John D. Rockefelle

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Delmore Schwartz

I am is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that I do is the longest sentence?

George Carlin

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Anita Brookne

One of the many ways of managing peers is to knock them down so heavily, whenever we find them on their wrong foot, that they loose the courage of raising their voice when we are wrong.

B. J. Gupta

For it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.

Alexander Hamilton

Management An activity or art where those who have not yet succeeded and those who have proved unsuccessful are led by those who have not yet failed.

Paulson Frenckne

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

Maria Edgeworth

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

H. L. Mencken