Age Quotes
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.Seneca
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.Martin Luther King Jr.
Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.Joubert
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.G. K. Chesterton
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.Thucydides
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.Johann von Goethe
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.Andr Gide
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.Conan Doyle
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.Author Unknown
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.Robertson Davies
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941
The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003
Courageous risks are life - Giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.Joan L. Curcio
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue - Fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.MG Siriam
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.Mary Anne Radmache
My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.Josh Billings
Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate As we voyage along through life, Tis the set of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.Henry Louis Mencken
The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up at me as though I, too, were already caught a few feet above him in the strata and, in my turn, were staring upward at that strip of sky which the ages were carrying farther away from me.Loren
If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.George W. Bush
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.Reinhold Niebuh
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.Plato
There is a homely old adage which runs Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.Theodore Roosevelt
The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.Wystan Hugh Auden
The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.Author Unknown
People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them.Anatole France
A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own.Johann von Goethe
Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.Alexander Clark
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.George Bernard Shaw
I believe that I shall see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord with courage be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord.Psalm 27 13 - 14 Bible
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.J. R. R. Tolkien
Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.Rosenstock - Huessy
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.Demosthenes, First Olynthiac
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.Johann von Goethe
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.Doug Larson
