Age Quotes

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

George Herbert Walker Bush

The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism.

Norman Brenne

At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first - Rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats.

Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985

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

The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.

Portuguese - Jewish Wedding Ceremony

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

Jean Cocteau

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

Logan Pearsall Smith

Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Florence Scovel Shinn

When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools.

William Shakespeare

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Robert G. Ingersoll

I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever.

Greg Proops

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

Christina Baldwin

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way throughout a thousand obstacles.

Washington Irving

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

Plutarch

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 no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.

Joseph Conrad, Nostromo

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 Caesa

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

Tom Stoppard, Rosencranz And Guildenstern Are Dead

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Maurice Chevalie

In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Horace Smith

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.

Douglas Pagels, A Wonderful Resolution For The New Year!

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field - work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

Robert Graves

No man is truly great, who is great only in his life - Time. The test of greatness is the page of history.

William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

Hellen Kelle

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

Johann von Goethe

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Jean Anouilh

Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Harry S Truman

Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.

Indian Prove

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don? t mind, it doesn? t matter.

Satchel Paige

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Benjamin Disraeli

When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.

Author Unknown

I am part of the sea and stars And the winds of the South and North Of mountains and Moon and Mars, And the ages sent me forth.

Edward H. S. Terry

He altered the image of the Jew from that of rabbi, merchant, wanderer, to that of scientist, farmer and soldier.

Shimon Peres