Age Quotes

Successful... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

Walter Lippmann

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Plato

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud, tractate Gittin

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

Charlie Chaplin

Never feel self - Pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Millicent Fenwick

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

J. Martin Kohe

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Kim Hubbard

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

Cicero

Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.

Author Unknown

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self - Esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

Fritz Perls

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Kurt Vonnegut

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.

Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988

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

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

Marilyn Monroe

It marriage happens as with cages the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to getting out.

D. A. Battista

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill - Advised marriages than from virginity.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

Maya Angelou

Language is the dress of thought.

Samuel Johnson

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

Mark Russell

Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college.

Tom Masson

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Richard Bach

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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

Victor Hugo

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.

Sri Madhava

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Mark Twain

American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.

George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Samuel Goldwyn

Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.

H. L. Mencken

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

Evan Esa

It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage - Earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.

Pope Pius XI

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Confucius

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

Walter Scott

If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time.

Benito Mussolini, The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism, 1935

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

Alfred North Whitehead

Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.

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