Age Quotes

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

Clark Gable, Gone With the Wind

We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost - Benefit calculations.

John Kenneth Galbraith

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantages of others.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

Red Skelton

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Clive Staples Lewis

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

Martha Graham

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

Roland Barthes, Esprit

All of the significant battles are waged within the self.

Sheldon Kopp

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.

William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 2 scene 2

Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

Kahlil Gibran

How Kennedy knew the precise drop in milk consumption in 1960, the percentage rise in textile imports from 1957 to 1960 and the number of speeches cleared by the Defense Department is not quite clear, but anyway, he did. He either overwhelmed you with decimal points or disarmed you with a smile and a wisecrack.

James Barrett Scotty Reston

What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.

John Irving, _The Cider House Rules_ (1985)

My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.

Rodney Dangerfield

One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.

William Safire

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.

Johnson

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

George Bernard Shaw

We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945

We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Benjamin Disraeli

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Stephen Covey

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.

Alexander Hamilton

The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

Hermann Hesse

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

Unknown

Our common language is... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non - English - Speaking children learn this common language.

William John Bennett

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

Mark Twain

In producers, loafing is productive and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.

Jacques Martin Barzun

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

Quintilian

When in doubt, do the courageous thing.

Jan Smuts

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.

John Simon

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

Voltaire

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

Doug Larson

People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them.

Anatole France

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

Amanda Cross