Age Quotes

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.

Dorothy Thompson

I am years gone from my family and miles away... but they raid by telephone with jarring suddenness they have the cyclic constancy of a mortgage and they are inevitable and relentless, like the erosion of my remaining youth. Like certain frightening dreams, my family returns.

Jerrold Mundis

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

Van Wyck Brooks

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

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.

Benjamin Disraeli

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

H. L. Mencken

Duty, then, is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.

Robert E. Lee

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

Doug Larson

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Helena Rubinstein

There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

Samuel Johnson

A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.

Author Unknown

At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.

Benjamin Franklin

Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.

H. L. Mencken

Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.

Johnson

England and America are two countries separated by a common language.

George Bernard Shaw

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost....

Richard Bach

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - That is to triumph over old age.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, O Magazine, October 2003

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

Demosthenes

Benson, you are so free of the ravages of intelligence.

Time Bandits

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

This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what youre doing, or it comes out flat. You cant fake your way through this.

Real Live Preache

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Maya Angelou

War connot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the others advantage.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.

Elizabeth Harrison

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.

Johnson

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - And to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.

Karl von Bonstetten

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

A. Whitney Brown

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

Question with boldness even the existance of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.

Joe Gores

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions.

George Carlin, Napalm and Silly Putty

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

Philip G. Hamerton, "The Intellectual Life".

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

Mark Russell

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - Never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers