Age Quotes

Ralph waldo emerson - it seems to me that perfection of means and...
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
Sophocles
A different language is a different vision of life.
Federico Fellini
I stopped believing in Santa Claus at age six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph.
Shirley Temple Black
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
Gilda Radne
There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
Colette
Casey stengel - most people my age are dead at the present time....
The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.
James Taylo
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
George Orwell
The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.
Andre Malraux
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
William Shakespeare
Arnold toynbee - civilization is a movement and not a condition, a...
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Courage mounteth with occasion.
William Shakespeare, King John, II. i
The Dilbert Principle The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage - - Management.
Scott Adams
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas, Collected poems (1952)
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
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
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him.
"Aqualung" - Jethro Tull
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - And we will make the goal.
Jerome P. Fleishman
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005
Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.
Mark Twain
When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools.
William Shakespeare
I detest life - Insurance agents they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
Stephen Leacock
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
Seneca, Epistulae Morales
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
Margaret Mead
Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.
Claude M. Bristol
I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.
Judy Garland
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong - - Because someday you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carve
The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.
Albert Schweitze
The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.
Julie Arabi
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
Bruce Barton
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Robert Burton
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
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
Erma Bombeck
The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies an accident going to happen.
John Sloan Dickey