Age Quotes
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.Calvin Coolidge
A venturesome minority will always be eager to get off on their own... let them take risks, for Godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - That is the right and privilege of any free American.16 Idaho Law Review 407, 420 - 1980.
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world - Art, or philosophy, or learning - Regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.Freya Stark
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.Victor Hugo
David I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being *crushed* by a *dwarf*. Alright That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.This Is Spinal Tap
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.Unknown
The great leaders have always stage - Managed their effects.Charles De Gaulle
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.Vincent Van Gogh
Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life.Margaret Lowenfeld
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)
If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind.Don Marquis
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 could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.Arthur Schopenhaue
One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.William Shatner as Kirk, in "Dagger of the Mind".
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.Johann von Goethe
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. : -Larry Wall in
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.Eric Hoffer, "The True Believer", 1951
It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.Sophocles
There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.Oswald Mosley
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.Galileo Galilei
Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about but evermore Came out by the same Door as in I went.Omar Khayym
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.Mignon McLaughlin
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.Horace Greeley
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
For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile nothing endures except the sense of difference.Alan Valentine
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything.Vincent Van Gogh
Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.Author Unknown
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.Thomas Troward
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.Sainte - Beave
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager.William S. Burroughs
The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self - Reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.Henry Louis Mencken
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.Josh Billings
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
