Age Quotes

William congreve, the mourning bride, 1697, act iii scene 8 - heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,...
Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.
Field Marshall John French
Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.
Christopher Morley
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914)
Whoever said Marriage is a 5 - 5 proposition laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any other short sentence in our language.
Austin Elliot
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
Erma Bombeck
Consult your dragon before you wager his hide.
Melaine Rawn, Dragon Star 1: Stronghold
Francois de fenelon - discouragement is simply the despair of wounded...
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
John Lyly
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
A crisis does not always appear to a policymaker as a series of dramatic events. Usually it imposes itself as an exhausting agenda of petty chores demanding both concentration and endurance.
Henry Kissinger, Years of Upheaval
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
Demosthenes
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 4 scene 3
The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.
Johnson
Johann von goethe - love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a...
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
Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self - Esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.
Fritz Perls
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
Sophocles
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
Gaston Bachelard
There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.
Alfred Adle
Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
Samuel Johnson
Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - Especially if he has a teenage daughter.
Guy Albert Lombardo
A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
Cicero
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
One man with courage makes a majority.
Andrew Old Hickory Jackson
The wine seems to be very closed - In and seems to have entered a dumb stage. Sort of a Marcel Meursault.
Paul S. Winalski
The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign.
George W. Bush, Speech (2005)
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
Gloria Pitze
The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things have their beginnings but the seed never explains the flower.
Edith Hamilton
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
George Eliot, Middlemarch
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
George Bancroft
Indignation boils my blood at the thought of the heritage we are throwing away; at the thought that, with few exceptions, the fight for freedom is left to the poor, forlorn and defenseless, and to the few radicals and revolutionaries who would make use of liberty to destroy, rather than to maintain, American institutions.
Arthur Garfield Hays
Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.
Richard Lovelace, To Althea from Prison
The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.
Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
Religion is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.
Theodore Herman Albert Dreise
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.
Benjamin Disraeli
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
Corra Harris
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world - Art, or philosophy, or learning - Regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.
Freya Stark
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
Jessamyn West