Age Quotes
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.Robertson Davies
Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.Maya Angelou
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.Martha Graham
Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids.Tim Bedore
The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.Theodore Roosevelt
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.Delmore Schwartz
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.David M. Ogilvy
Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.Dee W. Hock, Fast Company
Political language - And with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.George Orwell, 1946
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 not to be feared.David Ben - Gurion
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.Gaston Bachelard
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.George Du Maurie
I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget.Charles Hamilton Aide
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.John Lyly
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.Unknown
It takes a village to raise an idiot.William Dukane
The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.Marshall McLuhan
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.Jay Leno
By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.George W. Bush, Speech to the United Nations, September 12, 2002
A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.Sir Walter Besant
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
What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches?The Quarterly Review (England), March 1825
Me, we. Supposedly the shortest quote in the English language delivered at a Harvard graduation.Muhammad Ali
Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.General Robert E. Lee
Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.William Pitt
I hate middle age. Too young for the bowling green, too old for Ecstasy.Ian Pattison, Rab C. Nesbitt, television series
Time is the image of eternity.Laertius Diogenes
Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.John Kenneth Galbraith
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.Indian Prove
I know why the caged bird sings.Maya Angelou, Quoting a lyric by Paul Laurence Dunba
The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.Albert Schweitze
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people - A black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.Henry Louis Mencken
Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.Confucius
Most comics make jokes to defend themselves against what they see as a hostile and inhumane world often a deeply felt rage.Samuel S. Janus
You will have more fun on your vacation if you maintain a mental age of 18 or less. Act just old enough to make your travel connections and stay out of trouble.Joe Schwartz
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.Wendell Phillips
