Age Quotes

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Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
Hamilton Wright Mabi
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak.
Francois La Rochefoucauld
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitze
Old age is not a disease - It is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
Samuel Johnson
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean Paul Richte
The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
William Osle
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
Samuel Johnson
You manage things you lead people.
Grace Murray Hoppe
Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Florence Scovel Shinn
Courage in danger is half the battle.
Titus Plautus
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
Doug Larson
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to chage the way you think.
Oprah Winfrey
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003
The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.
Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
Oscar Wilde
Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.
Author Unknown
Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.
Luke Rhinehart
If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.
Peggy Noonan
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle - Aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott - Maxwell
A page of history is worth a pound of logic.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
What is important - what lasts - In another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.
Peter Brodie
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Henry Kissinge
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.
Anonymous
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
Jacques Deval
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Matthew Arnold
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson
To me - Old age is always ten years older than I am.
Andre Bernard Buruch
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.
Alan King
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
Unknown
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin
Adolescence is the stage between infancy and adultery.
Unknown
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the others.
Miguel Cerbantes
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.
William Shakespeare
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
Gilda Radne