Age Quotes

I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Leon Blum

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuh

Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Margaret Atwood

Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.

Machiavelli

Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.

George W. Bush

True love is not rare at the age of a teen, but recognizing it as true love is.

Brad Bell

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Aldous Huxley

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

Seneca

If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

George Bernard Shaw

Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.

William A. Smith, 1908

England and America are two countries seperated by the same language.

George Bernard Shaw

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.

Francois de Fenelon

American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.

George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999

Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Vicki Baum

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

Daniel Boorstin

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

Heywood

Time is the image of eternity.

Laertius Diogenes

It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.

George Steine

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.

Kahlil Gibran

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

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

Erica Jong

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

Charles Schwa

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

J. R. R. Tolkien

He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

The average, healthy, well - Adjusted adult gets up at seven - Thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

Jean Ke

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Albert Einstein

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.

Camille Paglia

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1882

Some people think only intellect counts knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

Dean Koontz

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.

Tom Lehre

Courage is a special kind of knowledge the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

David Ben - Gurion

Be strong and of good courage be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

Joshua 19 Bible

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

Doug Larson