Age Quotes

Perhaps in time the so - Called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

Dean Koontz

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

Hermann Hesse

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Mark Twain

If we want a love message to be heard, it has to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Mother Theresa

True love is not rare at the age of a teen, but recognizing it as true love is.

Brad Bell

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Plato

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.

Dorothy Thompson

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Henry Ward Beeche

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Dale Carnegie

I pay very little regard... to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.

Julian Weber Gordon

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

George Bernard Shaw

There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.

Millicent Carey McIntosh

Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.

Herman Melville, Moby Dick

The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars.

Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

The Stone Age came to an end not for a lack of stone, and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil.

Zaki Yamani, (chief architect of OPEC)

The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.

Albert Schweitze

Adulthood is the ever - Shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

Thomas Szasz

I detest life - Insurance agents they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Stephen Leacock

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.

Carol Matthau, O Magazine, October 2003

The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Thomas Carlyle, Proflies in Courage by: John F. Kennedy

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

William James

One of the many ways of managing peers is to knock them down so heavily, whenever we find them on their wrong foot, that they loose the courage of raising their voice when we are wrong.

B. J. Gupta

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

Joseph Stalin

A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.

Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.

Christopher Fry

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Jane Wagne

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

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.

Mark Twain

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.

Tom Stoppard

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

George Washington Carve

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

Alfred Victor Vigny

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

Eric Hoffe

It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.

Homer, The Odyssey