Quotes
Quotes about Age
Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearne, but it is still nonsense.
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
A free agent is anything but.
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.
The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence. -James L. Fisher.
Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.
The languages, especially the dead, The sciences, and most of all the abstruse, The arts, at least all such as could be said To be the most remote from common use, In all these he was much and deeply read.
Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.
I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free.
That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me A glorious court, where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers; And sometimes, for variety, I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels; Calling their victories, if unjustly got, Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy, Deface their ill-placed statues.
What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard. - Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia),
Let us live then, and be glad While young life's before us After youthful pastime had, After old age had and sad, Earth will slumber over us. [Lat., Gaudeamus igitur, Juvenes dum sumus Post pucundam juventutem. Post molestam senectutem. Nos habetit humus.]
Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die. [It., Spesso e da forte, Piu che il morire, il vivere.]
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
