Age Quotes
God created sex. Priests created marriage.Voltaire
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.Theodore Harold White
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.Carl Sandburg
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1
Courage mounteth with occasion.William Shakespeare, King John, II. i
I have three treasures. Guard and keep them: The first is deep love, The second is frugality, And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world. Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing.Gyles Lytton Sitrachy
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage.Sydney Smith
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.Alford
It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age.Ralph Waldo Emerson
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money
Playing football in the morning is like eating cabbage for breakfast.Pressbox Maxim
Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities.John A. Rassias
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.Gloria Pitze
Courage in danger is half the battle.Titus Plautus
Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.Unknown
A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.John Ballantine Gough
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.Oscar Wilde
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.H. L. Mencken
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.Jean Cocteau
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.Whitney M. Young Jr.
From the age of six, I have known that I was sexy. And let me tell you it has been hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.Bette Davis
Courage is grace under pressure.Ernest Hemingway
Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.Carl Sandburg, New York Times Feb. 13, 1959
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.Pico Iyer, Time
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.G. K. Chesterton
Pathos, piety, courage, ? they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, 1924
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager.William S. Burroughs
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.William Golding
Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.Friedrich Nietzsche
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.Stephen Covey
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.Joachim du Bellay
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.Conte Vittorio Alfieri
Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids.Tim Bedore
Courage may be taught as a child is taught to speak.Euripides
