Age Quotes

William hazlitt, on the pleasure of hating - no man is truly great, who is great only in his...
Catullus - oh, this age! how tasteless and ill - bred it is!...
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph W. Sockman
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
Joseph Addison
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.
J. R. R. Tolkien
God pays, but not weekly wages.
Polish Prove
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
J. B. Priestley
BASIC - A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company.
Anon.
Adulthood is the ever - Shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
Thomas Szasz
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
Annie Dillard
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything.
Vincent Van Gogh
The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.
Bruce Barton
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
William Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi
A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.
Lao - Tzu
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions.
George Carlin, Napalm and Silly Putty
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy Adams
The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.
Johnson
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Charles Caleb Colton
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. e. cummings
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
Jane Austen
Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.
Amanda Cross
Courage is being scared to death - But saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
I speak BASIC to clients, 1 - 2 - 3 to management, and mumble to myself.
Anon.
The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.
Richard F. Lovelace
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.
Black Hawk
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.
Homer, The Odyssey
Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
Woody Allen
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
Andrew A. Rooney
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations and suddenly find - At the age of fifty, say - That a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about... It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
Agatha Christie
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Sir Thomas Browne, 1642
There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.
Alfred Adle
What is it the Bible teaches us? - Rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.
Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Stephen Hawking
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
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Mark Twain
Man... is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill - Educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
Plato
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