Age Quotes

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

J. R. R. Tolkien

The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

Sir Harold George Nicolson

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.

Miguel de Cervantes

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

Cleveland Amory

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.

Horace Bushnell

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

From the age of six, I have known that I was sexy. And let me tell you it has been hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.

Bette Davis

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Seneca

The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.

Sir Winston Churchill

For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

Real Live Preache

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

J. B. Priestley

It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer, Time

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

Francis Quarles

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Mark Twain

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Andrew A. Rooney

The great tragedy of science - The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

T. H. Buxley

Our first responsibility is not to build the Church or even to get souls saved - - It is to represent Christ and to bring His message to the world. As God beholds us in Christ, so the world must behold Christ in us. As Christ represents us before the Father, so we must represent Christ before the world.

Cornelius Stam

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Thornton Wilde

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.

William Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night", Act 3 scene 4

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Sigmund Freud

How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.

Black Hawk

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

Philip G. Hamerton, "The Intellectual Life".

When you have a child, the world has a hostage.

Ernest Hemingway

My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.

Rodney Dangerfield

If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

George W. Bush

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Hoshang N. Akhta

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Helena Rubinstein

Competition between individuals sets one against the other and undermines morale, but competition between organizations builds morale and encourages creativity.

Unknown

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

It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.

Shaftesbury

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

Alexander Haig