Age Quotes

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

J. B. Priestley

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196

Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.

Jane E. Brody

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitheead

I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.

Lindsay Lohan

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

Jean Cocteau

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Abraham Lincoln

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Mark Twain

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

Philip G. Hamerton, "The Intellectual Life".

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly... I think - - Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it.

Henry David Thoreau

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

Jay Leno

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, Act 1 Scene 1

We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principle one was that they escaped teething.

Mark Twain

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - Never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

H. L. Mencken

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

William Ellery Channing

The world is disgracefully managed one hardly knows to whom to complain.

Ronald Firbank

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas

What business strategy is all about; what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning - Is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.

Keniche Ohnae

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 lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.

Kahlil Gibran

I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value,

Walt Whitman

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle - Aged men.

Kin Hubbard

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Horace Smith

Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Samuel Johnson

If there be any truer message of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

Robert South

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

Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Margaret Atwood

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Paul Tillich

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

Martin Luthe

Playing football in the morning is like eating cabbage for breakfast.

Pressbox Maxim

Politics doesn? t make strange bedfellows - - Marriage does.

Groucho Marx

Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.

H. L. Mencken

Everyone is the age of their heart.

Guatemalan Prove