Quotes
Quotes about Age
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. -George Bernard Shaw.
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart. -Walter Savage Landor.
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. -Martin Luther King.
Your heart is free, have the courage to follow it. -Braveheart.
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
Alas! my child, where is the Pen That can do justice to the Hen? Like Royalty, she goes her way, Laying foundations every day, Though not for Public Buildings, yet For Custard, Cake and Omelette. Of if too old for such a use They have their fling at some abuse, As when to censure Plays Unfit Upon the stage they make a Hit Or at elections seal the Fate Of an Obnoxious Candidate. No wonder, Child, we prize the Hen, Whose Egg is Mightier than the Pen.
Alas! my child, where is the Pen That can do justice to the Hen? Like Royalty, she goes her way, Laying foundations every day, Though not for Public Buildings, yet For Custard, Cake and Omelette. Of if too old for such a use They have their fling at some abuse, As when to censure Plays Unfit Upon the stage they make a Hit Or at elections seal the Fate Of an Obnoxious Candidate. No wonder, Child, we prize the Hen, Whose Egg is Mightier than the Pen.
The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecyâwhen properly aged.
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.
History is a pageant, not a philosophy.
What want these outlaws conquerors should have But History's purchased page to call them great?
And history with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.
The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history, which is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, and misfortunes of mankind.
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
Even the Germans did not succeed in doing the damage you propose to do.
The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
They died hard, those savage men-like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.
