Age Quotes
Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.Oscar Wilde
At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.Benjamin Franklin
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.Jessamyn West
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.Pico Iyer, Time
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.Jean Cocteau
Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language?Ernest Thompson Seton
Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.Ronald Firbank
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.George Santayana, Dialogues in Limbo (1925) ch. 3
Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age.Victor Hugo
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.Black Hawk
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.Professor Irwin Corey
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.William Osle
Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.Plato
Man... is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill - Educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.Plato
Comedy is tragedy plus time.Carol Burnett
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the others.Miguel Cerbantes
the tragedy of life is not that we die, but is rather, what dies inside a man while he lives.Albert Schweitze
The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'Dorothy Parke
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.Virginia Woolf
Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force...Peter F. Drucker, People and Performance
In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.Mark Twain
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.George Washington Carve
It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.Robert Green Ingersoll
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.Sir Thomas Browne, 1642
Music is the soul of language.Max Heindel
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.Thornton
Metric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight and measurement system, one world - All communist! We know the West was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile.Dean Krakel, Director of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage.Sydney Smith
There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.Lillian Eichler Watson
No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - - I mean the wages of decent living.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?Logan Pearsall Smith
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.Fyodor Dostoevsky
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.E. F. Schumache
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
