Age Quotes

Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing.
Gyles Lytton Sitrachy
Demosthenes, first olynthiac - every advantage in the past is judged in the...
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, Act 1 Scene 1
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
W. Somerset Maugham
Thomas carlyle - that there should one man die ignorant who had...
Most people go on living their everyday life half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi - Comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.
Albert Einstein
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
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
Dean Koontz
Washington irving - some minds seem almost to create themselves,...
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
Sam Rayburn
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.
George Bernard Shaw
The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them - Thus preserving the system.
Quentin
I came from a disadvantaged home. They were Republicans.
Paul Tsongas, campaigning in New Hampshire
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
Cyril Connolly
For want of self - Restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross - Grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self - Control.
Smiles
A venturesome minority will always be eager to get off on their own... let them take risks, for Godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - That is the right and privilege of any free American.
16 Idaho Law Review 407, 420 - 1980.
The average, healthy, well - Adjusted adult gets up at seven - Thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
Jean Ke
I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.
Russell Bake
Perhaps in time the so - Called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 4 scene 3
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
J. B. Priestley
Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many.
Publilius Syrus
I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages henceTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I - - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!
William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 1
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.
Erica Jong
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagne
Life without the courage for death is slavery.
Seneca
Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.
Julie Arabi
Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Confucius
Suffering. We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
Anatole France
The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort - He never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.
Arnold Bennett
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
Horace Greeley
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
G. K. Chesterton
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.
Henry David Thoreau
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
Robert Albert Bloch
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.
William Ellery Channing
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.
Robert South
Indignation boils my blood at the thought of the heritage we are throwing away; at the thought that, with few exceptions, the fight for freedom is left to the poor, forlorn and defenseless, and to the few radicals and revolutionaries who would make use of liberty to destroy, rather than to maintain, American institutions.
Arthur Garfield Hays
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife, Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life, Is worth an age without name.
Thomas Osbert Mordaunt