Age Quotes

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone all leave it alone.

Thomas De Quincey

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.

Robert Frost

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Tom Stoppard

Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.

Solon

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

Quintilian

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.

Sophocles

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Conte Vittorio Alfieri

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.

Barnett Brickne

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.

Coventry Patmore

Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Harry S Truman

The Stone Age came to an end not for a lack of stone, and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil.

Zaki Yamani, (chief architect of OPEC)

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Stephen Hawking

Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.

Aristotle

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

William Blake

Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Bernard M. Baruch

Now I shall return to my village and there will remain at the disposition of the nation.

Charles De Gaulle

Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.

Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle - Aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

I. F. Stone

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

Maurice Chevalie

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carve

Any new venture goes through the following stages: enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and decoration of those who did nothing.

Unknown

I am about to put foward some major ideas they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely a few will in some sort, then, I shall have contributed to the progress of our age, and shall be content.

Marquis de Sade

Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Anita Brookne

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Sir Thomas Browne

Experience becomes possible because of language.

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

It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

Richard Jeni

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

Richard Lovelace, To Althea from Prison

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence.

Art Linklette

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Sigmund Freud

Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to.

Black Hawk

Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.

Unknown

Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions... that laws were like cobwebs, - - For that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.

Laertius Diogenes

One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children - - Unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide - And - Seek.

Bill Cosby, Time Flies

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.

Boutros Boutros - Ghali

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

Virginia Woolf