Age Quotes

Adam smith, the wealth of nations, 1776 - all for ourselves and nothing for other people...
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole
Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.
Luke Rhinehart
Ours is the age of substitutes instead of language, we have jargon instead of principles, slogans and instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.
Eric Bentley
Russell green - the advantage of a classical education is that it...
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.
John Simon
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.
Alexander Hamilton
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.
General Colin Powell
Experience becomes possible because of language.
Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196
Ron wild - seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the...
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
Joseph Addison
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
Andrew A. Rooney
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.
Henry David Thoreau
Most men who are not married by the age of thirty - Five are either homosexual or really smart.
Becky Rodenbeck
Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.
Fontenelle
There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.
David Ben - Gurion
For it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.
Alexander Hamilton
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.
William Golding
You will have more fun on your vacation if you maintain a mental age of 18 or less. Act just old enough to make your travel connections and stay out of trouble.
Joe Schwartz
I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.
Judy Garland
The truth of the matter is that window management under X is not yet well understood.
The "Xlib Programming Manual".
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Martha Graham
To hate a man because he was born in another country, because he speaks a different language, or because he takes a different view of this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human... Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity.
John Comenius
Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.
Author Unknown
A specification that will not fit on one page of 8. 5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1, 000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
Carl Sagan
Courage is being scared to death - But saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
Dee W. Hock, Fast Company
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies against despots - - Suspicion.
Demosthenes
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Sir Thomas Browne, 1642
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
James Earl Jones
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
Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Florence Scovel Shinn
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.
John Irving, _The Cider House Rules_ (1985)
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
George Bernard Shaw
All of our dreams can come true - - If we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.
Unknown
The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.
Eugene Debs
It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
Paul Tournie