Age Quotes
Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.Thomas Jefferson
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.John Erskine
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.Thomas Jefferson
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.William S. Burroughs
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.Henry Kissinge
God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.Alcoholics Anonymous Praye
Playing football in the morning is like eating cabbage for breakfast.Pressbox Maxim
Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.J. Todd
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.Martin Luther King Jr.
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.Robert Burton
He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.Ren G. Torres
Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.Cicero
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.Sir James Glove
Man... is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill - Educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.Plato
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.Florence Shinn
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.Virginia Woolf
What is important - what lasts - In another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.Peter Brodie
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.A. A. Milne
Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.Ambrose Bierce
From the age of six, I have known that I was sexy. And let me tell you it has been hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.Bette Davis
Middle age is when your age starts to show around the middle.Bob Hope
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.Robert South
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.William Butler Yeats
Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - If they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.John Oliver Hobbes
A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.Cicero
I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment - - But if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. A Tramp Abroad, 1880.Mark Twain
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.Mignon McLaughlin
The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate we ask ourselves, Are these words true? If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate we ask, Are they necessary? At the last gate we ask, Are they kind?Eknath Easwaran
People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.William Bennet Munro
You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed, And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse. For Is and Is - Not though with Rule and Line And Up - And - Down by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, I Was never deep in anything but - Wine.From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Translation by Edward Fitzgerald)
Suffering. We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.Anatole France
No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.J. Lawton Collins
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.Charlie Chaplin
I was born at the age of 12 on a Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer lot.Judy Garland
Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.Prince Otto
Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.David Ben - Gurion
There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.Carol Matthau, O Magazine, October 2003
