Age Quotes

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time.

Benito Mussolini, The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism, 1935

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

Conan Doyle

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

Charles Caleb Colton

A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.

Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.

Mary Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, A Memoi

One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again.

Judith Viorst

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Andr Gide

There is a homely old adage which runs Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

Theodore Roosevelt

We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears.

John Ruskin

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

Oscar Wilde

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

E. e. cummings

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface

People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them.

Anatole France

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

Leszezynski Stanislaus

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Josh Billings

God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.

Alcoholics Anonymous Praye

Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill - Bred it is!

Catullus

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Harry S Truman

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.

Henry Louis Mencken

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

James Abram Garfield

One man with courage makes a majority.

Andrew Old Hickory Jackson

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

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.

Joseph Conrad, Nostromo

Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.

Vicki Baum

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

John Simon

Legend a lie that has attained the dignity of age.

Henry Louis Mencken

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

Sydney Harris

Never feel self - Pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Millicent Fenwick

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

Warren Bennis

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.

Russell Green

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Peggy Noonan

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

Henry David Thoreau