Age Quotes

Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky

Marriage should be a duet - - when one sings, the other claps.

Joe Murray

Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle Old Age a regret.

Benjamin Disraeli

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.

George Burton Adams

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

Raymond Lindquist

Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.

J. Todd

Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

Henry David Thoreau

Marriage is the wastepaper basket of the emotions.

Leon Botstein

The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.

Wilson Mizne

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003

Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.

Alexander Clark

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

Rita Rudne

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.

Miguel de Unamuno

For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

Lyste

Courage is found in unlikely places.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Augustine, (AD 354 - 430)

One of the many ways of managing peers is to knock them down so heavily, whenever we find them on their wrong foot, that they loose the courage of raising their voice when we are wrong.

B. J. Gupta

It is easier to talk about money - - And much easier to talk about sex - - Than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.

Smiley Blanton

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way throughout a thousand obstacles.

Washington Irving

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

Homer, The Odyssey

Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.

H. L. Mencken

A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.

Author Unknown

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

Jeff Marde

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

John W. Gardne

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Benjamin Disraeli

Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin, so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that 45 between the teeth can get pretty strong at times, so why invite temptation.

Andrew Schneide

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it. Without the laugh, there is no Tao.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

BASIC - A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company.

Anon.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Wendell Phillips

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity so have some little frocks but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Silence will not betray your thoughts but the expression on your face will. Humor has a hundred faces tragedy only a few.

H. G. Mendelson

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 greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare