Age Quotes

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak.

Francois La Rochefoucauld

Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not. knows no release from little things.

Amelia Earhart Putnam

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein, (attributed)

When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.

Author Unknown

Whoever said Marriage is a 5 - 5 proposition laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any other short sentence in our language.

Austin Elliot

Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.

Unknown

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

Walter Scott

I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever.

Greg Proops

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

Amanda Cross

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - That is to triumph over old age.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, O Magazine, October 2003

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists".

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.

Israel Zangwill

What is it the Bible teaches us? - Rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.

Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

Mark Twain

How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.

Black Hawk

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.

William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 2 scene 2

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

Professor Irwin Corey

Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Harry S Truman

Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance the more we feel how much remains unknown.

Humphrey Davy

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I stopped believing in Santa Claus at age six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley Temple Black

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Lloyd Alexande

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Paul Tillich

Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.

Solon

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

One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.

William Safire

The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.

Johnson

It is easier to talk about money - - And much easier to talk about sex - - Than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.

Smiley Blanton

He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent - Infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination - - And taxes.

H. E. Martz

It takes a village to raise a child.

African Prove

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - First to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Albert Camus

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

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Sophocles, Antigone

Time is the image of eternity.

Laertius Diogenes