Quotes
Quotes about Age
Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
Everyday language is a part of the human organism and is no less complicated than it.
To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty of nature. If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages 20 years.
If...the machine of government...is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
I know I am among civilized men because they are fighting so savagely.
There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things.
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize.
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small haemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. The day the gates go up, that day it begins to die.
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
