Age Quotes

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

Homer, The Odyssey

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

Clark Gable, Gone With the Wind

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, - All duties even.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Elizabeth Harrison

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.

John Lancaster Spalding

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.

Joseph Stalin

The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.

Sir Winston Churchill

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - - And in fact we have forgotten.

Euripides

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

Sir W. Temple

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

J. B. Priestley

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.

Anatole France

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucke

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. : -

Larry Wall in

The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom He knows himself but does not display himself He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.

Lao Tzu

Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance.

David Pratt

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

Malcolm Muggeridge

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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

Anon.

What a new face courage puts on everything.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Thornton Wilde

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Maya Angelou

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, O Magazine, October 2003

He is a teenager, after all - A strange agent with holes in his jeans, studs in his ear, a tail down his neck, a cap on his head backward.

Ellen Karsh

Whoever controls the media - - The images - - Controls the culture.

Allen Ginsberg

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.

Leon Trotsky

Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

Margaret Halsey

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

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - First to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Albert Camus

I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever.

Greg Proops

Courage is a special kind of knowledge the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

David Ben - Gurion

Did you exchange a walk - On part in a war, for a leading role in a cage?

Pink Floyd, song "Wish You Were Here".

When marrying, ask yourself this question Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'

Dorothy Parke

It is easier to talk about money - - And much easier to talk about sex - - Than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.

Smiley Blanton