Quotes
Quotes about Age
'Tis plate of rare device and jewels Of rich and exquisite form, their values great, And I am something curious, being strange, To have them in sale stowage.
I would . . . earnestly advise them for their good to order this paper to be punctually served up, and to be looked upon as a part of the tea equipage.
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley led to some cool, green, and peaceful, sunlit place but it's all jungle here, a wild and savage wilderness that's overrun with ruins.
The curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
He managed to hit all the keys on the great American political piano.
Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!
When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past-- For years fleet away with the wings of the dove-- The dearest remembrance will still be the last, Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.
The ancient sage who concocted the maxim, Know Thyself might have added, Don't Tell Anyone!
Wisdom and knowledge decrease in inverse proportion to age.
How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease.
I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from the mighty peaks to the smalles of the tiny flowers hidden in the meadow's grass.
Language is fossil poetry.
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. - Ralph Waldo Emerson,
And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation.
Language is the only instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
The accent of one's country dwells in the mind and in the heart as much as in the language. [Fr., L'accent du pays ou l'on est ne demeure dans l'esprit et dans le coeur comme dans le langage.]
Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.
Writ in the climate of heaven, in the language spoken by angels.
