Age Quotes - Page 187

I'm the same age as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth.

I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three.

Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.

When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But when to truth allied, the wound she gives Sinks deep, and to remotest ages lives.

Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.

Comedy = tragedy + time.

Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with his acts. And above all, no one pins him down with their thoughts and their expectations.

She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

The prerequisite for a good marriage ... is the license to be unfaithful.

I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.

It's the law of averages: put in more, come out with more.

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through.

Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.

We've not been assigned to hang out until He returns ”we've been given a message and a power that completely revolutionizes life. Why would anyone want to get up in the morning and not shape the course of world history?

Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.

A change in language can transform our appreciation of the cosmos.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

People get discouraged. They should remember, from me, it takes courage not to be discouraged.

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Basically, the body does have a vast amount of inbuilt anti-ageing machinery; it's just not 100% comprehensive, so it allows a small number of different types of molecular and cellular damage to happen and accumulate.

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.