Quotes
Quotes about Age
A Robin Red breast in a Cage
One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
All the world's a stage,
We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.
Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing. Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not.
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.
Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone; all leave it alone.
Money, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. An evidence of culture and a passport to polite society.
The zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. I wanted to see an oyster-catcher, so I was no better than the people who caged the oyster-catcher for me to see.
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reach us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiation of their personalities.
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common--this is my symphony.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.
