Age Quotes

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read.

Mark Twain

Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.

Mark Twain

Nature has perfection, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image.

Blaise Pascal

The shortage of student loans may require... divestiture of certain sorts - Stereo divestiture, automobile divestiture, three - weeks - At - The - Beach divestiture.

William John Bennett

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Johann von Goethe

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Horace Walpole

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

George Bernard Shaw

All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.

Arthur Schopenhaue

Without justice courage is weak.

Benjamin Franklin

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - Every day begin the task anew.

Saint Francis de Sales

Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - Especially if he has a teenage daughter.

Guy Albert Lombardo

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Benjamin Disraeli

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

Eugene Debs

We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.

Aldous Huxley

The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

Albert Einstein

Men are like wine some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Pope John XXIII

Duty, then, is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.

Robert E. Lee

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Rosevelt

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

Phillip Chesterfield

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Jewish Prove

That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

Thomas Carlyle

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

Walter Ke

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.

Elizabeth Harrison

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Author Unknown

Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.

Margo Kaufman

I think on - Stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

Shelley Winters

In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.

Henry David Thoreau

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Jane Austen

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day

Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you.

Virgil

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife, Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life, Is worth an age without name.

Thomas Osbert Mordaunt

Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions... that laws were like cobwebs, - - For that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.

Laertius Diogenes