Age Quotes

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.

William Arthur Ward

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

We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.

George W. Bush, September 7, 2003

Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

Maya Angelou

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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

Solon

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

Sir Thomas Browne

The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.

Saint Augustine

I am years gone from my family and miles away... but they raid by telephone with jarring suddenness they have the cyclic constancy of a mortgage and they are inevitable and relentless, like the erosion of my remaining youth. Like certain frightening dreams, my family returns.

Jerrold Mundis

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

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 blind - Folded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

Clarence Darrow

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

Sir James Glove

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Richard Bach

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

Christina Baldwin

Courage may be taught as a child is taught to speak.

Euripides

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Billy Graham

In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

We live by encouragement and die without it - - Slowly, sadly, angrily.

Celeste Holm

We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - Enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Author Unknown

In human relations a little language goes farther than a little of almost anything else. Whereas one language now often makes a wall, two can make a gate.

Walter V. Kaulfers, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Many people have died for their beliefs? The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.

Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon.

I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load. I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road. Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone, And transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone.

Gale Brook Burket

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

G. K. Chesterton

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

I believe in the institution of marriage and I intend to keep trying until I get it right.

Richard Pryo

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

H Hahn Blavatsky

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Groucho Marx

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.

Henry Louis Mencken

High thoughts must have high language.

Aristophanes, Frogs, 405 B. C.

Good leadership consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

John D. Rockefelle

I grow more intense as I age.

Florida Scott - Maxwell, O Magazine, October 2003