Age Quotes

Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Woody Allen

It takes a village to raise an idiot.

William Dukane

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

John Howe

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.

William Franklin Billy Graham

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

Raymond Lindquist

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder - Storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

Thomas Mann

Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

George Bernard Shaw

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951

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

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

J. Michael Straczynski

Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Removing the faults in a stage - Coach may produce a perfect stage - Coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

Edward De Bono

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

James Abram Garfield

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

Oscar Wilde, , in a letter to his friend, Frances Forbes - Robertson, who had invited him to her wedding in London, but Wilde wa

The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate we ask ourselves, Are these words true? If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate we ask, Are they necessary? At the last gate we ask, Are they kind?

Eknath Easwaran

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong - - Because someday you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carve

Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college.

Tom Masson

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

James Taylo

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Susan Taylo

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleano

We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.

Ellen Gilcrist

Marriage should be a duet - - when one sings, the other claps.

Joe Murray

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

Virginia Woolf

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.

Thomas Higginson

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

All of the significant battles are waged within the self.

Sheldon Kopp

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Walter Scott

Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.

Aristotle

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

J. B. Priestley

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.

Prince Otto

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

E. Joseph Crossman

If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.

Rob Brown