Age Quotes

Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Woody Allen

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Johnson

Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.

Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.

Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless, noisy baggage behind.

Jed Babbin, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense

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

Hermann Hesse

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.

John W. Gardne

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Albert Schweitze

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage, and determination to succeed.

Rosalind Sussman Yalow

If there be any truer message of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

Robert South

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

Alfred Adle

England and America are two countries seperated by the same language.

George Bernard Shaw

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Jewish Prove

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

Plato

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.

Henry David Thoreau

Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

William H. Mauldin

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

Robert Elwood Bly

Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.

Helen Rowland

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Robert Albert Bloch

Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.

Bias

To hate a man because he was born in another country, because he speaks a different language, or because he takes a different view of this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human... Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity.

John Comenius

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Bruce Barton

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.

Erica Jong

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Aristotle

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

Christina Baldwin

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richte

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

Henry David Thoreau

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1882

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

William Golding

Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself.

Franz Xavier Kroetz

In youth we learn in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Abraham Lincoln

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

H Hahn Blavatsky

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.

George Saintsbury

The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Thomas Carlyle, Proflies in Courage by: John F. Kennedy