Age Quotes

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Mark Twain

America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Evan Esa

Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.

Julian Weber Gordon

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

The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars.

Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

Dans ce pays - Ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. In this country England it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. from Candide.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitheead

There is one universal gesture that has one universal message - - A smile.

Valerie Sokolosky

The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.

Sir B. Brodie

There is no accident so disastrous that a clever man cannot derive some profit from it nor any so fortunate that a fool cannot turn it to his disadvantage.

La Rochefoucauld

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

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

H. L. Mencken

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

J. G. Gallimore

This document describes the usage and input syntax of the Unix Vax - 11 assembler As. As is designed for assembling code produced by the C compiler; certain concessions have been made to handle code written directly by people, but in general little sympathy has been extended.

Berkeley Vax/Unix Assembler Reference Manual (1983)

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

James Abram Garfield

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder - Storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

Thomas Mann

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

Samuel Johnson

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Victor Hugo

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Kim Hubbard

No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

Ronald Reagan

He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.

Ren G. Torres

The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign.

George W. Bush, Speech (2005)

The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

Hermann Hesse

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.

Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny

People fo privilage will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

Erma Bombeck

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

Galileo Galilei

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.

Edmund Burke

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

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

William S. Burroughs

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

Casey Stengel

Never feel self - Pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Millicent Fenwick

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Lloyd Alexande

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Kurt Vonnegut