Age Quotes

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Bruce Barton

To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - And to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.

Karl von Bonstetten

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Ayn Rand

Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. N. B. This quote is commonly misquoted as savage beast.

William Congreve

Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

James Madison, Federalist 10

The stage lost a fine actor, just as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dr. John H. Watson, referring to Sherlock Holmes, in "A Scandal in Bohemia".

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Socrates

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Raymond Chandle

If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.

Alan King

Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose - Garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind.

T. S. Eliot

The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.

Abbe Guillaume Raynal

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies (1981)

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle - Aged children for signs of improvement.

Florida Scott - Maxwell

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what youre doing, or it comes out flat. You cant fake your way through this.

Real Live Preache

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

Robert South

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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

Me, we. Supposedly the shortest quote in the English language delivered at a Harvard graduation.

Muhammad Ali

Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.

Daniel Webste

A page of history is worth a pound of logic.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.

Henry David Thoreau

We are all connected to everyone and everything in the universe. Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the whole. All thoughts, words, images, prayers, blessings, and deeds are listened to by all that is.

Serge Kahili King

Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.

Anonymous

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

James Thurbe

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Josh Billings

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Reinhold Niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943

What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you... every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.

Marquis de Sade

It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.

Sophocles, Ajax

Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.

Gloria Steinem

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.

Thomas Jefferson

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost....

Richard Bach

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.

Firmianus Lactantius