Age Quotes

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Tom Stoppard

From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty - Five, she needs good looks. From thirty - Five to fifty - Five, she needs a good personality. From fifty - Five on, she needs good cash.

Sophie Tucke

Rigidly organized pre - School classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self - Image of marginality and failure.

Valerie Polakow

Legend a lie that has attained the dignity of age.

Henry Louis Mencken

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

Samuel Johnson

The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.

Abbe Guillaume Raynal

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions... that laws were like cobwebs, - - For that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.

Laertius Diogenes

A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own.

Johann von Goethe

Marriage should be a duet - - when one sings, the other claps.

Joe Murray

If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.

Alan King

Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

Maya Angelou

Indignation boils my blood at the thought of the heritage we are throwing away; at the thought that, with few exceptions, the fight for freedom is left to the poor, forlorn and defenseless, and to the few radicals and revolutionaries who would make use of liberty to destroy, rather than to maintain, American institutions.

Arthur Garfield Hays

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Napoleon Bonaparte

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.

Gilda Radne

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Dale Carnegie

Politics doesn? t make strange bedfellows - - Marriage does.

Groucho Marx

Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.

Author Unknown

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

Johnson

Courage conquers all things.

Ovid

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined....

Leo C. Rosten

Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.

Billie Burke

Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.

Marion Howard

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Kim Hubbard

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

Marshall McLuhan

In human relations a little language goes farther than a little of almost anything else. Whereas one language now often makes a wall, two can make a gate.

Walter V. Kaulfers, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.

Henri Frdric Amiel

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

Demosthenes

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

Doug Larson

America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Evan Esa

A page of history is worth a pound of logic.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage.

Confucius Analects

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read.

Mark Twain

I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.

Albert Einstein

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

Virginia Woolf