Age Quotes

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fulle

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

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self - Interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self - Love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.

Adam Smith

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.

Mario M Cuomo

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Sir Winston Churchill

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Henry Ward Beeche

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

Eric Hoffe

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - Gunpowder and romantic love.

Andre Maurois

On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.

Anita Loos

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

Samuel Johnson

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Richard Pryo

Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.

Demosthenes, First Olynthiac

If we want a love message to be heard, it has to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Mother Theresa

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.

Elizabeth Harrison

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

Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

Red Skelton

The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.

Sri da Avabhas

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Napoleon Bonaparte

How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.

Ovid

Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.

Mark Twain

Management An activity or art where those who have not yet succeeded and those who have proved unsuccessful are led by those who have not yet failed.

Paulson Frenckne

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.

Israel Zangwill

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Bertrand Russell

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.

Jean Cocteau

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

Henry David Thoreau

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

Unknown

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

Sydney Smith

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Sophocles

Without justice courage is weak.

Benjamin Franklin

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

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleano

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

Plutarch

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

Booth Tarkington