Age Quotes

On stage, I make love to 25, 000 people, then I go home alone.
Janis Joplin
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
La Bruyere
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Heywood - the tragedy of life is not that man loses but...
The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
Maria Edgeworth
In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Stanislaus - what is fame? the advantage of being known by...
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
A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.
Lao - Tzu
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
Lyste
Adolescence is the stage between infancy and adultery.
Unknown
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin
In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.
Henry David Thoreau
Woody allen, without feathers - thought: why does man kill? he kills for food....
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Charles Caleb Colton
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
One man with courage is a majority.
Thomas Jefferson
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
Plato, The Republic
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Carl Hermann Voss
For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.
Larry Eisenberg
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
Andre Norton
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard Shaw
Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less.
Robert E. Lee
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
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed, And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse. For Is and Is - Not though with Rule and Line And Up - And - Down by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, I Was never deep in anything but - Wine.
From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Translation by Edward Fitzgerald)
Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.
Trotsky
That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
Paul Tournie
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
Joan Baez
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Mark Twain
It is about a socialist, anti - Family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Pat Robertson, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
Consult your dragon before you wager his hide.
Melaine Rawn, Dragon Star 1: Stronghold
Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.
Henry David Thoreau
Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.
Blaise Pascal
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
A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages.
Anon.
What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful It is the simple things that make the difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self - Respect, and the courage of conviction.
David L Boren
The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.
James Taylo