Age quotes

Age

Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.

- Doisneau, Robert

Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

- Pascal, Blaise

For you and me, today is all we have; tomorrow is a mirage that may never become a reality.

- Louis L'Amour

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

- Whitney M. Young Jr.

The essence of language lies in the intentional conveyance of ideas from one living being to another through the instrumentality of arbitrary tokens or symbols agreed upon and understood by both as being associated with the particular ideas in question.

- Samuel Butler

The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.

- Chandler, Raymond

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

- Jensen, Andrew

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

- Oscar Wilde

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

- Mead, Margaret

10.

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

- Sir James Glover

11.

Courage follows action.

- Douglas, Mack R.

12.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

- Alcott, Amos Bronson

13.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.

- Doris Day

14.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

- Arthur, William

15.

There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.

- Woody Allen

16.

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

17.

I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged.) Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.

- Feiffer, Jules

18.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

- John Ruskin

19.

The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.

- Mills, C. Wright

20.

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

- Washington, Booker T.