Age Quotes

Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.

W. C. Fields

Whoever has the greatest command of the language, holds the power.

Susan Johnson

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

Kahlil Gibran

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

Robert Benchley

Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

David Ben - Gurion

The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism.

Norman Brenne

I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget.

Charles Hamilton Aide

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent - Infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination - - And taxes.

H. E. Martz

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Herbert Marshall McLuhan

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, O Magazine, October 2003

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa

Money is the root of all evil, but the foliage is fascinating.

Val Peters

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

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Horace Smith

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

Jay Leno

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

John Simon

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

I speak BASIC to clients, 1 - 2 - 3 to management, and mumble to myself.

Anon.

Good leadership consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

John D. Rockefelle

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution when the old and the new stand side by side... when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era This time... is a very good one...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

England and America are two countries seperated by the same language.

George Bernard Shaw

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

I grow more intense as I age.

Florida Scott - Maxwell, O Magazine, October 2003

Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.

Marion Howard

The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - And friendless.

Author Unknown

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

Larry Wall

There are two messages from theory of Karma. Our condition in this life is determined by our deeds in previous life. We must do good in this life to improve our conditions in next life.

B. J. Gupta

It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.

Shaftesbury

Any new venture goes through the following stages: enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and decoration of those who did nothing.

Unknown

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

Robert South

One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children - - Unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide - And - Seek.

Bill Cosby, Time Flies

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.

Leon Trotsky

Count your life by smiles, not tears. Count your age by friends, not years.

Unknown

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Josh Billings