Age Quotes - Page 158

At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded." ... They might as well have said : Become as dull as you possibly can be.

Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment

In a world that contains tragedies, we must realize that they’re vastly outnumbered by blessings

The stadium expansion is currently at the feasibility stage and has to go through that.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

When a man marries a woman, they become one-the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.

The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.

I always had a sense that clothes, be it uniform or vintage, could help to create a character.

The Constitution contains no 'dignity' Clause, and even if it did, the government would be incapable of bestowing dignity. ... Slaves did not lose their dignity (any more than they lost their humanity) because the government allowed them to be enslaved. Those held in internment camps did not lose their dignity because the government confined them. And those denied governmental benefits certainly do not lose their dignity because the government denies them those benefits.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

I learned at a very young age that music teaches you about life. When you're in the midst of improvisation, there is no yesterday and no tomorrow — there is just the moment that you are in. In that beautiful moment, you experience your true insignificance to the rest of the universe. It is then, and only then, that you can experience your true significance.

Freedom is a system based on courage.

The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.

The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority.

It is not competition, but monopoly, that deprives labor of its product. Destroy the banking monopoly, establish freedom in finance, and down will go interest on money through the beneficent influence of competition. Capital will be set free, business will flourish, new enterprises will start, labor will be in demand, and gradually the wages of labor will rise to a level with its product.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everyone go along to get along, but that’s not going to be very helpful for us in the long run in terms of solving our problems, and someone has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to the bullies.

When all Americans are treated as equal we are all more free.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

Old age is second childhood.