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

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong - - Because someday you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carve

Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.

Sir Walter Besant

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.

Albert Einstein

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth...

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince

In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

Norman Douglas

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.

George Santayana

Age is no guarantee of maturity.

Lawana Blackwell

All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

Sun - Tzu

Go around asking a lot of damfool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them.

Clarence Birdseye

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

George Washington

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

Lewis Thomas

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

The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.

William James

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.

La Rochefoucauld

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager.

William S. Burroughs

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.

Mario M Cuomo

Someone asked Sophocles, How do you feel now about sex Are you able to have a woman He replied, Hush man most gladly indeed am I rid off it all, as though I had escaped from a mad and savage master.

Sophocles

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.

Joseph Stalin

It takes a village to raise an idiot.

William Dukane

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.

Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Charles Caleb Colton

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

Seneca, Epistulae Morales

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

Marcel Proust

Life is a tragedy when seen in close - Up, but a comedy in long - Shot.

Charlie Chaplin

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

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.

Sir Winston Churchill

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

Leszezynski Stanislaus

Becuase I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.

Emily Dickinson

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

Courage conquers all things.

Ovid

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.

John Lancaster Spalding

The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.

Saint Augustine

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Joseph Roux