Age Quotes
Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor Player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then is heard no more; It is a tall Tale, Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing.William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene V (MacBeth)
All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.Arthur Schopenhaue
My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.Sir Winston Churchill
The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom He knows himself but does not display himself He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.Lao Tzu
The medium is the message.Marshall McLuhan
Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.Samuel Johnson
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.Woody Allen, Without Feathers
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.William Arthur Ward
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.Winston Churchill, Quoted in: Irving Klotz, Bending perception, a book review, Nature, 1996, Volume 379, p 412
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.Doug Larson
Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.Unknown
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 not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.Ambrose Redmoon
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.Whitney M. Young Jr.
High thoughts must have high language.Aristophanes, Frogs, 405 B. C.
There is one and only one social responsibility of business - To use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.Milton Friedman
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.Paul Valery
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists".
There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.Lillian Eichler Watson
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.Dr. Dale E. Turne
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto p. 74 (pb 93)
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.Benjamin Disraeli
This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.Euripides
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.John Howe
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantages of others.Niccolo Machiavelli
The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate we ask ourselves, Are these words true? If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate we ask, Are they necessary? At the last gate we ask, Are they kind?Eknath Easwaran
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.Victor Hugo
The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.Kahlil Gibran
When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - Say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - It is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.James Earl Jones
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to chage the way you think.Oprah Winfrey
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.Unknown
Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.Claude M. Bristol
It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.Homer, The Odyssey
Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.Red Skelton
Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality - - Do whatever makes the most money.Barry Schwartz
