Age Quotes

Courage mounteth with occasion.

William Shakespeare, King John, II. i

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.

Joachim du Bellay

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.

George Burton Adams

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young men of this mealy generation the courage of their confusion.

John Anthony Ciardi

I came from a disadvantaged home. They were Republicans.

Paul Tsongas, campaigning in New Hampshire

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

Doug Larson

The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.

Neil Postman

Without justice courage is weak.

Benjamin Franklin

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein, (attributed)

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Human beings are seventy percent water, and with some the rest is collagen.

Martin Mull

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

Doug Larson

Political language - And with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell, 1946

Just because you love someone doesnt mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

Marriage is like a dollar bill. You cannot spend half of it when you tear it in two. The value of one half depends upon the other.

Joe Moore

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

Mark Twain

Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - If they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.

John Oliver Hobbes

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

Albert Einstein

All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.

Ben Harpe

Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom.

Greek Prove

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Alexander Hamilton

People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.

Erma Bombeck

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Stephen Hawking

We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language.... We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a common goal of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.

Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)

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

George Washington

Having a thirteen - Year - Old in the family is like having a general - Admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen - Agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

Max Lerne

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read.

Mark Twain

The great tragedy of science - The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

T. H. Buxley

The scars you acquire by exercising courage, Will never make you feel inferior.

D. A. Battista

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

Dr. Dale E. Turne

Strength, courage and power do not exclude kindness, understanding and consideration. You can be strong and kind; you can be courageous and understanding; you can be powerful and considerate.

Linda R. Dominguez, How to Shine at Work, (McGraw - Hill)

It used to take courage - - Indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence - - To leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home.

Alvaro de Solva

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

Emily Dickinson

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

Saskya Pandita

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein