Age Quotes
A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain.Author Unknown
How Kennedy knew the precise drop in milk consumption in 1960, the percentage rise in textile imports from 1957 to 1960 and the number of speeches cleared by the Defense Department is not quite clear, but anyway, he did. He either overwhelmed you with decimal points or disarmed you with a smile and a wisecrack.James Barrett Scotty Reston
There is one and only one social responsibility of business - To use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.Milton Friedman
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.Johann von Goethe
At age 50, every man has the face he deserves.George Orwell
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.Charles de Gaulle
For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.Larry Eisenberg
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.George Bernard Shaw
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original autho.Philip G. Hamerton
The average Ph. D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.J. Frank Dobie, "A Texan in England", 1945
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.William Shakespeare
A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages.Anon.
My soldiers ask of me, why surrender a military advantage in the field... I could not answer.General Douglas MacArthur, His final address to the joint session of the congress
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.Candice Bergen
The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.Marshall McLuhan
Duty, then, is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.Robert E. Lee
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - And friendless.Author Unknown
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.Maurice Chevalie
All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776
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
David I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being *crushed* by a *dwarf*. Alright That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.This Is Spinal Tap
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.Thornton
Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.Margo Kaufman
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.Henry Ford
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.George Bernard Shaw
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.Ludwig Wittgenstein
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.Ron Wild
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.Jacques Deval
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - Never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.Ann Landers
A crisis does not always appear to a policymaker as a series of dramatic events. Usually it imposes itself as an exhausting agenda of petty chores demanding both concentration and endurance.Henry Kissinger, Years of Upheaval
Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it.Johnson
the tragedy of life is not that we die, but is rather, what dies inside a man while he lives.Albert Schweitze
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
Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.John W. Gardne
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young men of this mealy generation the courage of their confusion.John Anthony Ciardi
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
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.Plato
