Age Quotes
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.Van Wyck Brooks
Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.Ronald Reagan
There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.Woody Allen
There are two messages from theory of Karma. Our condition in this life is determined by our deeds in previous life. We must do good in this life to improve our conditions in next life.B. J. Gupta
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
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.Hermann Hesse
Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward.John Mortimer, The Observer (1999)
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.Mark Twain
Courage may be taught as a child is taught to speak.Euripides
War connot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the others advantage.Niccolo Machiavelli
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.John Erskine
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager.William S. Burroughs
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.Joe Darion, "The Impossible Dream".
We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.Tom Stoppard, Rosencranz And Guildenstern Are Dead
The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.Saint Augustine
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.Ansel Adams
The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.Albert Schweitze
Go around asking a lot of damfool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them.Clarence Birdseye
Most men who are not married by the age of thirty - Five are either homosexual or really smart.Becky Rodenbeck
Because I could not stop for Death - - He kindly stopped for me - - The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortality.Emily Dickinson
If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time.Benito Mussolini, The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism, 1935
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.Ronald Reagan
Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.Plato
The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter.Sir Winston Churchill
Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.Richard Willard Armou
Gossip needs no carriage.Russian Prove
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.Edward De Bono
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.John Quincy Adams
Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.Henri de Montherlant
At age 50, every man has the face he deserves.George Orwell
From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty - Five, she needs good looks. From thirty - Five to fifty - Five, she needs a good personality. From fifty - Five on, she needs good cash.Sophie Tucke
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.Christopher Fry
I detest life - Insurance agents they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.Stephen Leacock
As A general rule, people marry most hapily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is.Robertson Davies
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.Thomas Jefferson
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.George Bernard Shaw
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.William Congreve
