Age Quotes
The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies an accident going to happen.John Sloan Dickey
Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.Henri Frdric Amiel
What is important - what lasts - In another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.Peter Brodie
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.Evan Esa
At age 50, every man has the face he deserves.George Orwell
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.George Santayana
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.Noah Webste
Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.Washington Irving
Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it.Johnson
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.Ambrose Redmoon
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.Cicero
Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.Field Marshall John French
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.Plato
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.Hamilton Wright Mabi
Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.H Hahn Blavatsky
One of the many ways of managing peers is to knock them down so heavily, whenever we find them on their wrong foot, that they loose the courage of raising their voice when we are wrong.B. J. Gupta
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.Ronald Reagan
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The average Ph. D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.J. Frank Dobie, "A Texan in England", 1945
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.Firmianus Lactantius
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.Sam Rayburn
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.Quintilian
Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.Richard Lovelace, To Althea from Prison
You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.Homer, The Odyssey
I am about to put foward some major ideas they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely a few will in some sort, then, I shall have contributed to the progress of our age, and shall be content.Marquis de Sade
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.Annie Dillard
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.Peter Ustinov
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.William Shakespeare
The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.Saint Augustine
Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless, noisy baggage behind.Jed Babbin, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.George Du Maurie
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.Ovid
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.D. H. Lawrence
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914)
The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.Eugene Debs
