Age Quotes

It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
H. w. dodds - a thick head can do as much damage as a hard...
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Fran Lebowitz
A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages.
Anon.
Frank zappa, interview with this submitter, new york city, 5/08/1980 - the function of government ought to be: make sure...
A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Sir Walter Besant
A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.
Lao - Tzu
If there be any truer message of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
Robert South
Joe moore - marriage love, honor, and negotiate....
In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
As A general rule, people marry most hapily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is.
Robertson Davies
The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them - Thus preserving the system.
Quentin
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
J. B. Priestley
If we want a love message to be heard, it has to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Theresa
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.
Alford
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Victor Hugo
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
Oscar Wilde
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Paul Tillich
It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
Paul Tournie
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
Thomas Fulle
I know why the caged bird sings.
Maya Angelou, Quoting a lyric by Paul Laurence Dunba
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey.
Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.
Henry Louis Mencken
Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
A. Whitney Brown
Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.
Helen Rowland
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
Peter Drucke
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others.
William Hazlitt
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647
It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate manner that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
Oscar wilde, Quoted in Ellmann
We live by encouragement and die without it - - Slowly, sadly, angrily.
Celeste Holm
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.
Hellen Kelle
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
Publilius Syrus
It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.
Machiavelli
All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776
To endure the cross is not tragedy it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.
Dietrich Bonhoeffe
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
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Voltaire
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
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