Age Quotes
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.Lloyd Alexande
Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.Solon
All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.Jim Fiebig
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.Abraham Lincoln
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Courage is not the towering oak That sees storms come and go It is the fragile blossom That opens in the snow.Alice Mackenzie Swaim
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.Johann von Goethe
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.Mary Anne Radmache
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.Robert Louis Stevenson
Gossip needs no carriage.Russian Prove
Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.W. C. Fields
Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.Mark Twain
Count your life by smiles, not tears. Count your age by friends, not years.Unknown
Men are like wine some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.Pope John XXIII
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you? re doing, or it comes out flat. You can? t fake your way through this.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 29, 2004
Strength, courage and power do not exclude kindness, understanding and consideration. You can be strong and kind; you can be courageous and understanding; you can be powerful and considerate.Linda R. Dominguez, How to Shine at Work, (McGraw - Hill)
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.Thomas Edison
To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.P. G. Wodehouse
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.George Santayana
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.Author Unknown
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.George Santayana
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)
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.Pearl Buck
If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.George W. Bush
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything.Vincent Van Gogh
He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954
I believe in the institution of marriage and I intend to keep trying until I get it right.Richard Pryo
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.Mark Twain
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.George Carlin
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
He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent - Infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination - - And taxes.H. E. Martz
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life.Margaret Lowenfeld
Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
In producers, loafing is productive and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.Jacques Martin Barzun
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly... I think - - Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it.Henry David Thoreau
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
