Age Quotes

Now I shall return to my village and there will remain at the disposition of the nation.

Charles De Gaulle

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

From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.

Visions of Gregorian Chants

Most people my age are dead at the present time.

Casey Stengel

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

W. Somerset Maugham

Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.

Author Unknown

Peter Who am I You sure you want to know The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied.

Spider - Man

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickove

I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in the making, but shall draw its materials largely from the annual produce of the fields.

Henry Ford, 1934

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

Martha Graham

Having a thirteen - Year - Old in the family is like having a general - Admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen - Agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

Max Lerne

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, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

Benjamin Franklin

Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Wendell Phillips

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

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.

Ron Wild

The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.

Andre Malraux

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Thornton

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)

What a new face courage puts on everything.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... it takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein

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

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

William Butler Yeats

But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief, The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight, Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.

John Milton

Age is no guarantee of maturity.

Lawana Blackwell

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, O Magazine, October 2003

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudne

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Herbert Marshall McLuhan

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to.

Black Hawk

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson

Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.

Ronald Reagan

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

H. L. Mencken

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

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce