Age Quotes

It takes a village to raise an idiot.

William Dukane

Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

H. Mumford Jones

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Ayn Rand

The stage lost a fine actor, just as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dr. John H. Watson, referring to Sherlock Holmes, in "A Scandal in Bohemia".

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Sir Winston Churchill

Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Time is the image of eternity.

Laertius Diogenes

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.

William Arthur Ward

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Muriel Spark

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

Because I could not stop for Death - - He kindly stopped for me - - The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortality.

Emily Dickinson

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.

Robert Brault

Every women needs at least 4 animals. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass that pays for everything.

Paris Hilton

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

George W. Bush

Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Beverly Nichols

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

Charles Caleb Colton

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Socrates

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

Dan Quayle

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long - Established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

Henry Besseme

Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other.

James Grover Thurbe

Experience becomes possible because of language.

Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - - The things we live by and teach our children - - Are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Walt Disney

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Helena Rubinstein

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

Russell Green

The great tragedy of science - - The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Thomas Huxley

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

Judith Stone

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Thomas Jefferson

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the faade of his appearance.

Jean Iris Murdoch

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196

When one has nothing left to lose one becomes courageous. We are timid only when we have something left to cling to.

Don Juan Matus, The Second Ring Of Power by Carlos Castaneda

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.

Boutros Boutros - Ghali

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

Abraham Lincoln

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

Ernest Hemingway

If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

George W. Bush

It is about a socialist, anti - Family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

Pat Robertson, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.

Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Florence Scovel Shinn