Age Quotes
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.James Russell Lowell
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.Robert Oxton Bolt
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.Thomas Jefferson
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle - Aged men.Kin Hubbard
Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.Jean Jacques Rousseau
The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.Portuguese - Jewish Wedding Ceremony
Adolescence is the stage between infancy and adultery.Unknown
Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 27 - 04
The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.Abbe Guillaume Raynal
A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.Fontenelle
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.Denis Diderot
I know some good marriages - - Marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.Erica Jong
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.William Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night", Act 3 scene 4
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.Anonymous
Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.Field Marshall John French
The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.Author Unknown
The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.Victor Hugo
Marriage love, honor, and negotiate.Joe Moore
We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - Enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.Doug Larson
A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in which he resides, and for the true welfare of the society of which he is a member.Johathan Edwards
The Net interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it.John Gilmore
You will have more fun on your vacation if you maintain a mental age of 18 or less. Act just old enough to make your travel connections and stay out of trouble.Joe Schwartz
Consult your dragon before you wager his hide.Melaine Rawn, Dragon Star 1: Stronghold
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
Most people go on living their everyday life half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi - Comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.Albert Einstein
There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.Cleveland Amory
Comedy is tragedy plus time.Carol Burnett
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Question with boldness even the existance of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.Thomas Jefferson
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.George Washington Carve
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.Felix Adle
Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.David Ben - Gurion
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
Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.George Bernard Shaw
