Age Quotes
They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, We shall remember them.Laurence Binyen
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.Mark Twain
All of the significant battles are waged within the self.Sheldon Kopp
There is no accident so disastrous that a clever man cannot derive some profit from it nor any so fortunate that a fool cannot turn it to his disadvantage.La Rochefoucauld
If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.Erich Fromm
In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food - Outside are only great stretches of freedom.Nicanor Parra
By courage I repel adversity. Adversa Virtute Repello.Anonymous
It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
The wages of sin are unreported.Unknown
Count your life by smiles, not tears. Count your age by friends, not years.Unknown
God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.Alcoholics Anonymous Praye
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.James Russell Lowell
It marriage happens as with cages the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to getting out.D. A. Battista
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
He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - Cynical, but hopeful.Dame Rose Macaulay, Crewe Train, 1926
Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.Bias
Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may.Jack Holland
The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.Ernest Hemingway
It is about a socialist, anti - Family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.Pat Robertson, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.Herbert Kaufman
Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labelled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions.W. J. Reichmann
Age withers only the outside.Author Unknown
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles.. by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.Mark Twain
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988
Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you.Virgil
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.Alfred North Whitehead
Knowing that I am not the one in control gives great encouragement. Knowing the One who is in control is everything.Alexander Michael
We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.Maxwell Maltz
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem - And in my esteem age is not estimable.George Gordon Byron
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
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
A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.Max Weinreich
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.Thomas Bailey Aldrich
American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us put out more and better ideas if our efforts are truly appreciated.Alexander Osborn
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.Robert Francis Kennedy
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we... remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular.Edward R. Murrow
