Age Quotes
Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.Blaise Pascal
You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed, And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse. For Is and Is - Not though with Rule and Line And Up - And - Down by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, I Was never deep in anything but - Wine.From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Translation by Edward Fitzgerald)
In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space.Judith Stone
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.Horace Walpole
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.Aldous Huxley
Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined....Leo C. Rosten
There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.Samuel Johnson
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
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.Paul Hawken, Growing a Business
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.Martin Luther King, Jr.
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.Daniel Boorstin
Age does not make us childish, as some say it only finds us true children still.Johann von Goethe
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence... too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.Thomas Jefferson
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.Susan Taylo
When you have a child, the world has a hostage.Ernest Hemingway
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.Sydney Smith
Gossip needs no carriage.Russian Prove
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.Joan Baez
God created sex. Priests created marriage.Voltaire
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.G. K. Chesterton
There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.Robert Elwood Bly
Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.Rosenstock - Huessy
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.George Bernard Shaw
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.George Carlin
If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.Horace Bushnell
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.Mark Twain
Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.Doug Larson
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world - Art, or philosophy, or learning - Regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.Freya Stark
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear.Mark Twain
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such who are in the institution wish to get out and such as are out wish to get in.Ralph Waldo Emerson
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.Roland Barthes, Esprit
Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken.Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.William Shakespeare
Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.Dan Quayle
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.La Rochefoucauld
