Age Quotes

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

George Sand

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Reinhold Niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943

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

Joe Murray

These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the devil.

Kara Vichko

Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

Sir W. Temple

I stopped believing in Santa Claus at age six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley Temple Black

In youth we learn in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages henceTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I - - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.

Author Unknown

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

Jean Cocteau

Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.

Julie Arabi

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.

Anais Nin

I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.

Albert Einstein

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Carl Sandburg, New York Times Feb. 13, 1959

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Courageous risks are life - Giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.

Joan L. Curcio

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

E. Joseph Crossman

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

Cicero

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

Voltaire

From the age of six, I have known that I was sexy. And let me tell you it has been hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.

Bette Davis

Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Jane Harrison

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

Samuel Johnson

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Helena Rubinstein

How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.

Black Hawk

Our government sprang from and was made for the people - - Not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.

Andrew Johnson

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

Anon.

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

W. Somerset Maugham

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

William James

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Albert Schweitze

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Confucius

Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev