Age Quotes

I have three treasures. Guard and keep them The first is deep love, The second is frugality, And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world. Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

Lao Tzu

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)

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

Robert Benchley

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

Stephen Leacock

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

Frederick Buechne

The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.

Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food - Outside are only great stretches of freedom.

Nicanor Parra

The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

Lao Tzu

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.

William Feathe

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.

Athenus

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

Kahlil Gibran

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Confucius

Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.

Prince Otto

To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage.

Confucius Analects

The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.

John Calvin

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.

George Santayana

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

Cicero

Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.

Julie Arabi

At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.

Benjamin Franklin

I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

Oscar Wilde

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

Henri - Frederic Amiel

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

There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

Peter Drucke

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Muriel Spark

Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken.

Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing

Age does not make us childish, as some say it only finds us true children still.

Johann von Goethe

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

Alfred Victor Vigny

Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

Henry David Thoreau

Courageous risks are life - Giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.

Joan L. Curcio

To me - Old age is always ten years older than I am.

Andre Bernard Buruch

Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.

Johnson

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

Jeremy Taylo

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

Doug Larson