Age Quotes

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Jewish Prove

It is the responsibility of the sender to make sure the receiver understands the message.

Joseph Batten

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Carl Sandburg, New York Times Feb. 13, 1959

You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Vicki Baum

On stage, I make love to 25, 000 people, then I go home alone.

Janis Joplin

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

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other.

Henry Kissinge

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

Voltaire

Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Jane Harrison

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

Oscar Wilde, , in a letter to his friend, Frances Forbes - Robertson, who had invited him to her wedding in London, but Wilde wa

Question with boldness even the existance of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.

P. G. Wodehouse

Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.

Stephen Jay Gould

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage - - It can be delightful.

George Bernard Shaw

Most comics make jokes to defend themselves against what they see as a hostile and inhumane world often a deeply felt rage.

Samuel S. Janus

It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - - As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Phyllis

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

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

Otto von Bismark

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.

Joe Darion, "The Impossible Dream".

The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.

Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Benjamin Disraeli

Be positive in addressing the envelope to your future, For enclosed are your efforts from the past. Be certain of the postage and double check what class.

Unknown

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Benjamin Disraeli

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Susan Taylo

Carthago delenda est. Carthage must be destroyed.

Marcius Porcius Cato

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Louis K. Anspache

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

Dan Quayle

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.

Clement Stone

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

The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.

Vilhjlmur Stefnsson

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Larry Eisenberg

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... it takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Brian Adams