Age Quotes

God pays, but not weekly wages.
Polish Prove
When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools.
William Shakespeare
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
Clarence birdseye - go around asking a lot of damfool questions and...
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
Steven Weinberg
Thomas osbert mordaunt - sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife,...
All marriages are mixed marriages.
Chantal Saperstein
Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.
Joe Gores
The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon. Let others say his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig.
Ogden Nash, "The Pig".
Courage atrophies from lack of use.
Unknown
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
Pico Iyer, Time
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn.
Blaise Pascal
Horace greeley - the illusion that times that were are better than...
Age does not make us childish, as some say it only finds us true children still.
Johann von Goethe
Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age.
Christopher Morley
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
Casey Stengel
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Titus Maccius Plautus, Trinummus
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell
Courage is found in unlikely places.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
No country can be described as free - But each has different degrees of bondage.
Agatha Christie, Appointment with Death
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - Every day begin the task anew.
Saint Francis de Sales
Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the faade of his appearance.
Jean Iris Murdoch
We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears.
John Ruskin
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Carl Sandburg
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
Henry David Thoreau
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
Andre Norton
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict.
Paxton Blai
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.
George Saintsbury
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S Truman
Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream - A scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows - Is essentially poetry.
Jesse Louis Jackson
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
Warren Bennis
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high - Class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
Katharine Hepburn
One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our greed.
Author Unknown
The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.
Ronald Firbank
War connot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the others advantage.
Niccolo Machiavelli
It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
Sophocles