Age Quotes

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don? t mind, it doesn? t matter.

Satchel Paige

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

Voltaire

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

Francis Quarles

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

Henry David Thoreau

Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Saint Francis of Assisi

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Louis K. Anspache

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

Sydney Smith

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Henry Adams

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

Author Unknown

The people that one bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses.

Juvenal

It should be a very happy marriage - - - They are both so much in love with him.

Irene Thomas

People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them.

Anatole France

Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination.

Mark Twain

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - At the age of 50, say - That a whole new life has opened before you.

Agatha Christie

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.

Joe Darion, "The Impossible Dream".

The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.

Thucydides

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

Cleveland Amory

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

A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.

Max Weinreich

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

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

Josh Billings

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi

I have enjoyed greatly the second bloomingsuddenly you find - At the age of 50, say - That a whole new life has opened before you.

Agatha Christie

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.

Henry David Thoreau

Just because you love someone doesn? t mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, February 16, 2004

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force...

Peter F. Drucker, People and Performance

From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.

Visions of Gregorian Chants

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

Norman Douglas

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Tom Stoppard

Courage is grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway

In producers, loafing is productive and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.

Jacques Martin Barzun

Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may.

Jack Holland

Marriage love, honor, and negotiate.

Joe Moore

Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.

H. L. Mencken

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

Martha Graham