Age Quotes
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.Oscar Wilde
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.George Bernard Shaw
Life without the courage for death is slavery.Seneca
They say that the wages of sin is death. But after taxes its just a tired feeling really.Paula Poundstone, HBO stand - Up routine
Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.Bernard M. Baruch
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.Robert Francis Kennedy
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.Barnett Brickne
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.George Santayana
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.Sir Harold George Nicolson
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.Benjamin Disraeli
When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - Say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - It is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Knowing that I am not the one in control gives great encouragement. Knowing the One who is in control is everything.Alexander Michael
Man... is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill - Educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.Plato
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager.William S. Burroughs
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.John Erskine
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.Clarence Darrow
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.Firmianus Lactantius
Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.Ambrose Redmoon
In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.Lyndon B. Johnson
The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses!Juvenal, Satires
Most men who are not married by the age of thirty - Five are either homosexual or really smart.Becky Rodenbeck
I am is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that I do is the longest sentence?George Carlin
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
No country can be described as free - But each has different degrees of bondage.Agatha Christie, Appointment with Death
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.Ralph W. Sockman
The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things have their beginnings but the seed never explains the flower.Edith Hamilton
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.John Updike
God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.Alcoholics Anonymous Praye
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.Andre Norton
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination.Mark Twain
There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.Robert Elwood Bly
Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.Christopher Morley
