Age Quotes

Erica jong - everyone has talent. what is rare is the courage...
The Dilbert Principle The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage - - Management.
Scott Adams
William carlos williams - by listening to his language of his locality the...
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
B. A. Billingsly
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitze
If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
French Prove
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1882
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.
Peter Cochrane
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.
Herbert Hoove
Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.
Johnson
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.
Athenus
Legend a lie that has attained the dignity of age.
Henry Louis Mencken
The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
Peter Drucke
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
Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.
Blaise Pascal
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.
Arthur Schopenhaue
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
W. B. Yeats
Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.
Sri Madhava
Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.
Calvin Trillin
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
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.
Mark Twain
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
Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.
Oscar Levant
At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.
Pearl Buck
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
Robert Oxton Bolt
Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college.
Tom Masson
As A general rule, people marry most hapily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is.
Robertson Davies
Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.
Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity so have some little frocks but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.
Dorothy L. Sayers
It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Matthew Arnold
The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.
Ernest Hemingway
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
Alphonse Ka
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean Paul Richte
Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.
William Faulkne
The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them - Thus preserving the system.
Quentin
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.
Ogden Nash
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
George Eliot