Age Quotes

It takes a village to raise an idiot.

William Dukane

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.

Barnett Brickne

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self - Esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

Fritz Perls

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

John Howe

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

Diane Ackerman

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.

Miguel de Cervantes

We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally.

Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign ministe

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle Old Age a regret.

Benjamin Disraeli

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

Rigidly organized pre - School classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self - Image of marginality and failure.

Valerie Polakow

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

George S. Patton

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

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Alexander Hamilton

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

E. F. Schumache

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Wystan Hugh Auden

For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.

Woody Allen

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

George Bernard Shaw

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

Saskya Pandita

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell

Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.

W. C. Fields

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Plutarch

I stopped believing in Santa Claus at age six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley Temple Black

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Jean Anouilh

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

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.

Wilson Mizne

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

Joseph Stalin

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.

Robert Brault

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

William Osle

You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Susan Taylo

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

Henry Havelock Ellis

Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.

Alexander Clark

You manage things you lead people.

Grace Murray Hoppe