Age Quotes
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.Voltaire
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.William Feathe
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.Henry David Thoreau
How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.Ovid
Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.Mark Twain
America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.Evan Esa
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. ... We have truly entered the century of the educated man.Lyndon B. Johnson
Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.Margo Kaufman
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.Annie Dillard
Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.Richard Lovelace, To Althea from Prison
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.Carl Sandburg
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
At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first - Rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats.Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.Erma Bombeck
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.George Herbert Walker Bush
It takes a village to raise a child.African Prove
A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in which he resides, and for the true welfare of the society of which he is a member.Johathan Edwards
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?Logan Pearsall Smith
Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity.W. Kelly Griffith
There is no accident so disastrous that a clever man cannot derive some profit from it nor any so fortunate that a fool cannot turn it to his disadvantage.La Rochefoucauld
The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.Alexander Clark
You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.Homer, The Odyssey
At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.Benjamin Franklin
On marriage Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.Estee Laude
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.Sir James Glove
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.Voltaire
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.George Santayana
There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.Woody Allen
Courage changes things for the better... With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.Earl Nightingale
When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools.William Shakespeare
Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.Ambrose Bierce
The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.Sri da Avabhas
Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.J. Martin Kohe
Did you exchange a walk - On part in a war, for a leading role in a cage?Pink Floyd, song "Wish You Were Here".
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.Arnold Bennett
