Age Quotes

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Charles Caleb Colton

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - Ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

Lytton Strachey

One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.

William Safire

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The Net interprets censorship as damage... and routes around it.

John Gilmore

In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

Lyndon B. Johnson

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

Baltasar Gracian

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

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

Alexander Haig

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.

Boutros Boutros - Ghali

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

Erma Bombeck

It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Dilbert Principle The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage - - Management.

Scott Adams

the tragedy of life is not that we die, but is rather, what dies inside a man while he lives.

Albert Schweitze

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

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.

Ogden Nash

What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you... every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.

Marquis de Sade

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Erica Jong

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey.

Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - - Bureaucrats.

Alvin Toffle

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

Judith Rossne

Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high - Class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

Katharine Hepburn

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In youth we learn in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

If there be any truer message of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

Robert South

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)

Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.

Theodore Ledyard Cuyle

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

Sir James Glove

There is a homely old adage which runs: Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

Theodore Roosevelt, Speech in Chicago, 3 Apr. 1903

I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

Oscar Wilde

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

Doug Larson

We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.

George W. Bush, September 7, 2003

Rigidly organized pre - School classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self - Image of marginality and failure.

Valerie Polakow

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Thornton Wilde

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

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