Age Quotes

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus (1922)

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.

Ronald Reagan

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

Seneca

The shortage of student loans may require... divestiture of certain sorts - Stereo divestiture, automobile divestiture, three - weeks - At - The - Beach divestiture.

William John Bennett

One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again.

Judith Viorst

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.

John W. Gardne

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

William Congreve

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.

Anais Nin

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

Amanda Cross

The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.

General Robert E. Lee

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Cyril Connolly

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

Jean Anouilh

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

Leszezynski Stanislaus

Our first responsibility is not to build the Church or even to get souls saved - - It is to represent Christ and to bring His message to the world. As God beholds us in Christ, so the world must behold Christ in us. As Christ represents us before the Father, so we must represent Christ before the world.

Cornelius Stam

In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space.

Judith Stone

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

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

Sydney Harris

Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably togethe.

Clyde Kluckhohn

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.

William Feathe

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

Henry Ford

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

Pearl S. Buck

Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.

Henri Frdric Amiel

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Nelson Mandela

Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.

George W. Bush

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

Unknown

Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.

Agesilaus the Second

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Mark Twain

Not every age is fit for childish sports.

Titus Maccius Plautus

My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.

Rodney Dangerfield

In youth we learn in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them.

Anatole France

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

Josh Billings

The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.

Theodore Roosevelt

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

W. Somerset Maugham