Age Quotes
I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.Edmund Burke
Meetings are an addictive, highly self - Indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.Alain van der Heide
I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.Oscar Wilde
Becuase I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.Emily Dickinson
Carthago delenda est. Carthage must be destroyed.Marcius Porcius Cato
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.Mark Twain
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.Peter Cochrane
The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense.Author Unknown
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.Johnson
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.Groucho Marx
English is the easiest language to speak badly.George Bernhard Shaw
From the age of six, I have known that I was sexy. And let me tell you it has been hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.Bette Davis
How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown.William Shakespeare
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
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.Henry Havelock Ellis
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.Kathleen Norris
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.Ron Wild
One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.Eric Hoffe
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.Jean Anouilh
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.Andre Maurois
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.Henry David Thoreau
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.Jimmy Breslin
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.Samuel Johnson
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.Samuel Johnson
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.Hamilton Wright Mabi
Courage is one step ahead of fear.Coleman Young
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.Mark Twain
War connot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the others advantage.Niccolo Machiavelli
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 strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.George Washington Carve
To hate a man because he was born in another country, because he speaks a different language, or because he takes a different view of this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human... Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity.John Comenius
What a new face courage puts on everything.Ralph Waldo Emerson
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.Israel Zangwill
The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence.Art Linklette
Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids.Tim Bedore
All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.Walt Disney
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.Roosevelt, Eleano
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager.William S. Burroughs
