Age Quotes
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.William Arthur Ward
Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.George Bernard Shaw
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.Indian Prove
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.H. L. Mencken
Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.Mark Hopkins, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.Martin Luthe
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.Abraham Lincoln
On that day let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that all their efforts shall not have been in vain.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.Henry Louis Mencken
For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.Woody Allen
Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.Confucius
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.Ron Wild
No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.Clifford Bax
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.Eric Sevareid
A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.Sir Walter Besant
Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate As we voyage along through life, Tis the set of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The wine seems to be very closed - In and seems to have entered a dumb stage. Sort of a Marcel Meursault.Paul S. Winalski
Courage atrophies from lack of use.Unknown
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
When in doubt, do the courageous thing.Jan Smuts
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.H. L. Mencken
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.J. B. Priestley
He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.George Bernard Shaw
The wages of sin are unreported.Unknown
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.Socrates
If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time.Benito Mussolini, The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism, 1935
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.Oliver Wendell Holmes
It should be a very happy marriage - - - They are both so much in love with him.Irene Thomas
Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle Old Age a regret.Benjamin Disraeli
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.George Bernard Shaw
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.Josh Billings
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.Albert Einstein
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.Jean Cocteau
Courage is being scared to death - But saddling up anyway.John Wayne
