Age Quotes

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost....
Richard Bach
Publilius syrus - pardon one offense, and you encourage the...
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 shortage of student loans may require... divestiture of certain sorts - Stereo divestiture, automobile divestiture, three - weeks - At - The - Beach divestiture.
William John Bennett
Oscar wilde - the stage is not merely the meeting place of all...
Whoever said Marriage is a 5 - 5 proposition laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any other short sentence in our language.
Austin Elliot
Just because you love someone doesn? t mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.
Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, February 16, 2004
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Arnold Toynbee
H. w. dodds - a thick head can do as much damage as a hard...
We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.
Harry S. Truman
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
Larry Wall
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
Calvin Coolidge
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
Alphonse Ka
I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages henceTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I - - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
High thoughts must have high language.
Aristophanes, Frogs, 405 B. C.
At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first - Rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats.
Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985
On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.
Anita Loos
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
At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.
Pearl Buck
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - - And in fact we have forgotten.
Euripides
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Plato
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
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.
Mark Twain
Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.
John W. Gardne
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
Henry Ward Beeche
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003
We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
Benjamin Disraeli
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
B. A. Billingsly
A different language is a different vision of life.
Federico Fellini
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
George Bernard Shaw
By courage I repel adversity.
Anonymous
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
Thucydides
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.
Henry Louis Mencken
I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.
Lindsay Lohan
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
James Earl Jones
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
Bruce Barton
Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Saint Francis of Assisi
The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.
Neil Postman
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.
Vincent Van Gogh
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Florence Shinn