Age Quotes

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Berkeley Vax/Unix Assembler Reference Manual (1983)

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Jane Austen

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

Peter Drucke

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Albert Einstein

Metric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight and measurement system, one world - All communist! We know the West was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile.

Dean Krakel, Director of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame

Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.

Oscar Levant

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution when the old and the new stand side by side... when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era This time... is a very good one...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.

Russell L. Ackoff

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

Dr. Karl Bowman

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

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudne

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

Doug Larson

When marrying, ask yourself this question Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - They have preservatives.

Calvin Trillin

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

George Bernard Shaw

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

Calvin Coolidge

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.

Miguel de Cervantes

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

Charles Schwa

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Unknown

True love is not rare at the age of a teen, but recognizing it as true love is.

Brad Bell

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Peter De Vries

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

Dean Koontz

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Courage in danger is half the battle.

Titus Plautus

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

Thomas Huxley

Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities.

John A. Rassias

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder - Storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

Thomas Mann

Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.

Margo Kaufman

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, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One

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

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 29, 2004

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

Josh Billings

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

Demosthenes

The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars.

Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary