Age Quotes
Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance.David Pratt
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.George Du Maurie
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
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.Unknown
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.Thomas Fulle
Every women needs at least 4 animals. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass that pays for everything.Paris Hilton
It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage - Earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.Pope Pius XI
For it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.Alexander Hamilton
Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.Dr. Karl Bowman
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.Victor Hugo
In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him."Aqualung" - Jethro Tull
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.Stephen Covey
Language is the dress of thought.Samuel Johnson
Courage is grace under pressure.Ernest Hemingway
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.Ronald Reagan
I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.Edmund Burke
The Net interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it.John Gilmore
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.Paul Valery
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.Benjamin Franklin
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.Daniel Boorstin
Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.MG Siriam
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.Calvin Coolidge
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.George Bernard Shaw
Man... is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill - Educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.Plato
Thought: why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only for food: frequently there must be a beverage.Woody Allen, Without Feathers
Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - - As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.Phyllis
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.Mark Russell
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.James Russell Lowell
When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools.William Shakespeare
Our government sprang from and was made for the people - - Not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.Andrew Johnson
Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.Dee W. Hock, Fast Company
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.Leo Tolstoy
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.J. B. Priestley
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.William Shakespeare
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.Johann von Goethe
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.George Steine
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.Katharine Butler Hathaway
