Age Quotes

There is a homely old adage which runs: Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

Theodore Roosevelt, Speech in Chicago, 3 Apr. 1903

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

Voltaire

Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.

LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Augustine, (AD 354 - 430)

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

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

Voltaire

Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.

Helen Rowland

An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

James Albert Michene

This document describes the usage and input syntax of the Unix Vax - 11 assembler As. As is designed for assembling code produced by the C compiler; certain concessions have been made to handle code written directly by people, but in general little sympathy has been extended.

Berkeley Vax/Unix Assembler Reference Manual (1983)

Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

David Ben - Gurion

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

Henry Ford

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Most people my age are dead at the present time.

Casey Stengel

If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people - A black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Never feel self - Pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Millicent Fenwick

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

William S. Burroughs

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

John Updike

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

Samuel Johnson

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

William Blake

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

Plutarch

David I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being *crushed* by a *dwarf*. Alright That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.

This Is Spinal Tap

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Lucille Ball

The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.

Sri da Avabhas

Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain.

Author Unknown

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.

William Shakespeare

The medium is the message.

Marshall McLuhan

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

John W. Gardne

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill - Advised marriages than from virginity.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

Oswald Mosley

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

Sainte - Beave

Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Saint Francis of Assisi

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

Marshall McLuhan

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Ebner - Eschenbach