Age Quotes - Page 16

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

In Náhuatl, the language of the Aztec world, one key word for poet was 'tlamatine,' meaning 'the one who knows,' or 'he who knows something.' Poets were considered 'sages of the word,' who meditated on human enigmas and explored the beyond, the realm of the gods.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and so on. Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we're practically showered with them. It's good to keep this in mind.

If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long.

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

If you are not a better person tomorrow than you are today, what need have you for a tomorrow?

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create.

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.

A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.

Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and experience and failures and triumphs and friends who helped me step into the shape that had been waiting for me all my life...I not only get along with me most of the time now, I am militantly and maternally on my own side.

Manage the cause, not the result.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.

You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.

I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.

Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.

To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person - few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned.

Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting.

Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.