Quotes
Quotes about Age
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
It is not necessarily true that averaging the averages of different populations gives the average of the combined population.
To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
I'm somewhat shy about the brutal facts of being a carnivore. I don't like meat to look like animals. I prefer it in the form of sausages, hamburger and meat loaf, far removed from the living thing.
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
When the eyes say one thing and the tongue another, the practiced person relies on the language of the first.
Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
Life is life--whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet tired of the man.
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet tired of the man.
The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.
Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.
Vague and insignificant forms of speech, and abuse of language have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard and misapplied words, with little or no meaning, have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance, and hindrance of true knowledge.
It is not necessarily true that averaging the averages of different populations gives the average of the combined population.
Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it, but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
Remarriage: A triumph of hope over experience.
Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation cares about its own identity.
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 will not forget you.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Dictionary: A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
