Age Quotes

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.

Joachim du Bellay

When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it.

Lao Tzu

Consult your dragon before you wager his hide.

Melaine Rawn, Dragon Star 1: Stronghold

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!

Joachim Du Bellay, Sonnet de Regrets

Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

Janos Arnay

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

Francis Quarles

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Anatole France

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Johann von Goethe

The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.

Saint Augustine

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.

William Butler Yeats

The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

Anatole France

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.

Benjamin Disraeli

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our greed.

Author Unknown

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

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Edward De Bono

Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.

Joe Gores

Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities.

John A. Rassias

If we want a love message to be heard, it has to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Mother Theresa

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.

Thomas Higginson

I think on - Stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

Shelley Winters

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas, Collected poems (1952)

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, In "Apology, " sct. 21, by Plato.

There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

Peter Drucke

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us put out more and better ideas if our efforts are truly appreciated.

Alexander Osborn

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Gaston Bachelard

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.

Arthur Schopenhaue

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.

Miguel de Cervantes

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Plutarch

Music is the soul of language.

Max Heindel

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Horace Walpole

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

Conte Vittorio Alfieri