Age Quotes

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Lyndon b. johnson - in this age when there can be no losers in peace...
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
Vince Lombardi
Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.
V? lcav Havel, parade, Times Picayune
The great tragedy of science - - The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Evan Esa
People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them.
Anatole France
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
George Sand
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Andr Gide
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
George Eliot, Middlemarch
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
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Evil is a fact not to be explained away, but to be accepted and accepted not to be endured, but to be conquered. It is a challenge neither to our reason nor to our patience, but to our courage.
John Andrew Holmes
The Net interprets censorship as damage... and routes around it.
John Gilmore
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
Aldous Huxley
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Robert Burton
Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose Bierce
It used to take courage - - Indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence - - To leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home.
Alvaro de Solva
Gossip needs no carriage.
Russian Prove
Oswald mosley - there are periods in history when change is...
Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.
William Pitt
It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.
Shaftesbury
A self - Balancing, 28 - Jointed adaptor - Based biped; an electro - Chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62, 000 miles of capillaries....
R. Buckminster Fulle
Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies (1981)
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.
Albert Einstein
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.
Louis K. Anspache
Politics doesn? t make strange bedfellows - - Marriage does.
Groucho Marx
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
Joseph Conrad, Nostromo
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S Truman
A page of history is worth a pound of logic.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
D. H. Lawrence
Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!
Edwin Louis Cole
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
George Santayana
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
Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S Truman
Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.
MG Siriam
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.
Henry David Thoreau
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
E. Joseph Crossman
The wages of sin are unreported.
Unknown
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.
Miguel de Unamuno