Age Quotes

John lancaster spalding - the highest courage is to dare to appear to be...
Jay leno - give a man a fish and he will eat for a day....
BASIC - A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company.
Anon.
Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.
George W. Bush
An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
James Albert Michene
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carve
Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
Alfred Victor Vigny
The stream of thought flows on but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.
William James
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)
A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.
Jacques Maritain
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.
Henry Louis Mencken
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Mark Twain
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
Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age, but they die young.
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
Mark Twain
Courage is being scared to death - But saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.
Anita Loos
Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.
Christopher Morley
Author unknown - a little tact and wise management may often evade...
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
Professor Irwin Corey
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
Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about but evermore Came out by the same Door as in I went.
Omar Khayym
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
Frederick Buechne
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli
Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose - Garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind.
T. S. Eliot
Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality - - Do whatever makes the most money.
Barry Schwartz
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard Shaw
Courage is found in unlikely places.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.
Douglas Pagels, A Wonderful Resolution For The New Year!
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.
Richard F. Lovelace
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
Sydney Smith
Without justice courage is weak.
Benjamin Franklin
Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language?
Ernest Thompson Seton
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracian
I know some good marriages - - Marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.
Erica Jong
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
Pico Iyer, Time
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
Elizabeth Harrison
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage.
Sydney Smith