Age Quotes

Edmund burke - i thought ten thousand swords must have leaped...
Samuel johnson - read over your compositions, and wherever you...
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
Peter Drucke
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.
La Rochefoucauld
Gilbert keith chesterton - courage is almost a contradiction in terms. it...
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.
Mark Twain
Evil is a fact not to be explained away, but to be accepted and accepted not to be endured, but to be conquered. It is a challenge neither to our reason nor to our patience, but to our courage.
John Andrew Holmes
All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence... too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
Thomas Jefferson
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
Steven Weinberg
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw
The stage lost a fine actor, just as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dr. John H. Watson, referring to Sherlock Holmes, in "A Scandal in Bohemia".
Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost - Benefit calculations.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.
Sir William Arthu
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Thomas Edison
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Aristotle
By courage I repel adversity.
Anonymous
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
William Congreve
We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.
C. C. Colton
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
Ansel Adams
People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.
William Bennet Munro
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.
Athenus
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S Truman
Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.
Bias
Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.
J. Martin Kohe
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries
Any new venture goes through the following stages: enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and decoration of those who did nothing.
Unknown
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
Voltaire
Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people.
Unknown
However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Henry David Thoreau
Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle
A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in which he resides, and for the true welfare of the society of which he is a member.
Johathan Edwards
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.
Author Unknown
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks
Man... is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill - Educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
Plato
When you have a child, the world has a hostage.
Ernest Hemingway