Age Quotes

On that day let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that all their efforts shall not have been in vain.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

Courage conquers all things.

Ovid

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

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, 1697, act III scene 8

Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.

Billie Burke

The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up at me as though I, too, were already caught a few feet above him in the strata and, in my turn, were staring upward at that strip of sky which the ages were carrying farther away from me.

Loren

Whoever controls the media - - The images - - Controls the culture.

Allen Ginsberg

A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Plato

Our common language is... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non - English - Speaking children learn this common language.

William John Bennett

For want of self - Restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross - Grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self - Control.

Smiles

Suffering. We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Anatole France

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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

Shaftesbury

Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. ... He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.

Jean Nathan Mille

Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance.

David Pratt

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Conte Vittorio Alfieri

On marriage Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.

Estee Laude

The wine seems to be very closed - In and seems to have entered a dumb stage. Sort of a Marcel Meursault.

Paul S. Winalski

The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.

Sir B. Brodie

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournie

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

What business strategy is all about; what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning - Is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.

Keniche Ohnae

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

Mary Daly

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.

George Bernard Shaw

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Eric Hoffe

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

Alfred North Whitehead

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Reinhold Niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - They have preservatives.

Calvin Trillin

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1

America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Evan Esa

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, Act 1 Scene 1

The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.

Sri da Avabhas

I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.

Russell Bake