Age Quotes
Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.Claude M. Bristol
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.Ambrose Redmoon
Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.Henri de Montherlant
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.Christopher Fry
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.William S. Burroughs
The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.Albert Schweitze
My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.Josh Billings
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.Benjamin Disraeli
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.Cicero
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - Never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.Ann Landers
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.Mignon McLaughlin
How Kennedy knew the precise drop in milk consumption in 1960, the percentage rise in textile imports from 1957 to 1960 and the number of speeches cleared by the Defense Department is not quite clear, but anyway, he did. He either overwhelmed you with decimal points or disarmed you with a smile and a wisecrack.James Barrett Scotty Reston
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.Jean Cocteau
Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle Old Age a regret.Benjamin Disraeli
The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.Portuguese - Jewish Wedding Ceremony
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.William Shakespeare
The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.Ernest Hemingway
Success is that old ABC - - Ability, breaks, and courage.Charles Luckman
For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile nothing endures except the sense of difference.Alan Valentine
Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined....Leo C. Rosten
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 no to be feared.David Ben - Gurion
the tragedy of life is not that we die, but is rather, what dies inside a man while he lives.Albert Schweitze
To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.Confucius
Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.Bhagavad Gita
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.James Madison
We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.Eric Hoffe
In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.Clarence Darrow
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.Whitney M. Young Jr.
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill - Advised marriages than from virginity.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.Robert Byrne
The world is disgracefully managed one hardly knows to whom to complain.Ronald Firbank
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - At the age of 50, say - That a whole new life has opened before you.Agatha Christie
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
Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.Mary Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, A Memoi
I am about to put foward some major ideas they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely a few will in some sort, then, I shall have contributed to the progress of our age, and shall be content.Marquis de Sade
Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.
