Age Quotes

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

Shaftesbury

All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

Sun - Tzu

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Albert Einstein

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

Josh Billings

If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.

Erich Fromm

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson, Ziggy (comic)

In human relations a little language goes farther than a little of almost anything else. Whereas one language now often makes a wall, two can make a gate.

Walter V. Kaulfers, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Victor Hugo

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

Ralph W. Sockman

Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Peter Drucke

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

Clark Gable, Gone With the Wind

There are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering.

Trevor Rook

Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less.

Robert E. Lee

Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.

Alvin Toffle

However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Henry David Thoreau

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm - Blooded to fall into this vice.

Abraham Lincoln

Most men who are not married by the age of thirty - Five are either homosexual or really smart.

Becky Rodenbeck

Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Margaret Atwood

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, Speech in Chicago, 3 Apr. 1903

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Alfred Adle

The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.

Neil Postman

Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self - Righteous isolation.

John Dewey

Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self - Distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.

Author Unknown

In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space.

Judith Stone

Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky

The Net interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it.

John Gilmore

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.

Tom Lehre

Life is a tragedy when seen in close - Up, but a comedy in long - Shot.

Charlie Chaplin

One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

Eric Hoffe

No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - - I mean the wages of decent living.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

Larry Wall

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Thirty - Five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty - Five for years.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 3