Age Quotes

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Charles Caleb Colton

All my pupils are the crme de la crme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

Muriel Spark

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age. As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Phyllis Dille

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Josh Billings

I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load. I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road. Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone, And transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone.

Gale Brook Burket

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

Sainte - Beave

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others.

William Hazlitt

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

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.

Robert E. Lee

Experience becomes possible because of language.

Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

James F. Clarke

Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.

Sir Walter Besant

Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.

Blaise Pascal

Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age, but they die young.

Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

Albert Einstein

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

Virginia Woolf

The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up at me as though I, too, were already caught a few feet above him in the strata and, in my turn, were staring upward at that strip of sky which the ages were carrying farther away from me.

Loren

To endure the cross is not tragedy it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.

H. L. Mencken

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Ruth Gordon

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

George Bernard Shaw

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

James Thurbe

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Sigmund Freud

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.

George Burton Adams

Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is, but let us consider the two possibilities. If you gain, you gain all if you lose you lose nothing. Hesitate not, then, to wager that He is.

Blaise Pascal

Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

George Bernard Shaw

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Brendan Francis Behan

We live by encouragement and die without it - - Slowly, sadly, angrily.

Celeste Holm

The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters.

Rachel Blanchard

One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our greed.

Author Unknown

Money is the root of all evil, but the foliage is fascinating.

Val Peters

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

Benjamin Franklin

Language is the dress of thought.

Samuel Johnson

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Reinhold Niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

Margaret Mead

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Napoleon Bonaparte