Age Quotes

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

Plutarch

It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.

Sophocles, Ajax

I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment - - But if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. A Tramp Abroad, 1880.

Mark Twain

Politics should be the part - Time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Lucille Ball

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

Samuel Johnson

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

Sainte - Beave

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

Marriage is like a dollar bill. You cannot spend half of it when you tear it in two. The value of one half depends upon the other.

Joe Moore

The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self - Reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.

Henry Louis Mencken

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world - Art, or philosophy, or learning - Regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.

Freya Stark

This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you? re doing, or it comes out flat. You can? t fake your way through this.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 29, 2004

All my pupils are the crme de la crme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

Muriel Spark

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

Pearl Buck

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.

William Feathe

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

Susan Taylo

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 youth we learn; in age we understand.

Ebner - Eschenbach

I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value,

Walt Whitman

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

Dean Koontz

The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Having a thirteen - Year - Old in the family is like having a general - Admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen - Agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

Max Lerne

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

Otto von Bismark

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Robertson Davies

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 believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.

Harry S. Truman

Thirty - Five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty - Five for years.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 3

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.

George Santayana

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations and suddenly find - At the age of fifty, say - That a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about... It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

Agatha Christie

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Seneca

The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales

On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.

Anita Loos

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.

George Santayana

On marriage Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.

Estee Laude