Age Quotes

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Clive Staples Lewis

The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign.

George W. Bush, Speech (2005)

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richte

Time is the image of eternity.

Laertius Diogenes

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Bertie Forbes

Age does not make us childish, as some say it only finds us true children still.

Johann von Goethe

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

We must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage, and determination to succeed.

Rosalind Sussman Yalow

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

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

Homer, The Odyssey

No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.

H. L. Mencken

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Confucius

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

George Orwell

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - At the age of 50, say - That a whole new life has opened before you.

Agatha Christie

Marriage is based on the theory that when man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go work in the brewery.

George Jean Nathan

Courage changes things for the better... With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.

Earl Nightingale

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

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

H. L. Mencken

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

Lily Tomlin

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

Voltaire

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

Norman Douglas

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

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle - Aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

I. F. Stone

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone all leave it alone.

Thomas De Quincey

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

Mark Hopkins, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Herbert Kaufman

In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

Alphonse Ka

The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.

Oscar Wilde

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Aldous Huxley

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

John W. Gardne

No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.

Athenus

Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.

Julie Arabi

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