Age Quotes - Page 224

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.

Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles.

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.

Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.

How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?

The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men are those who have developed slowly, or who have been able to survive the glamour of their early florescence and to go on learning from life.

Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.

If you think about shortages, you're going to attract more shortage! If you think about what's missing, you're going to attract more of what's missing in your life.

Live purely in the moment on a rampage of appreciation.

I tore up and ate my own passport in an airport hotel once. I'm bloated with language I can’t afford to forget.

In other words, the percentage change in book value in any given year is likely to be reasonably close to that year's change in intrinsic value.

We have to bring back the individual. Management has smothered the individual.

We should be guided by theory, not by numbers.

You do not install quality; you begin to work at it.

We know what we told him, but we don't know what he heard.

It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

In New York alone, there was an average of more than 300 campus fires per year between 1997 and 2000, with roughly 160 of them annually in dormitories.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Even though . . . 9/11 happened because . . . Bush's FBI and CIA did not detect the Al Qaeda conspiracy . . . , Bush not only failed to apologize to the nation or the victims' survivors, he demonstrated his total lack of leadership by refusing to fire or even criticize those in these agencies who, like Bush, let this nation down. As in private life, to stimulate excellence, good performances have to be rewarded and gross negligence and incompetence punished.

At one of the largest advertising agencies in America psychologists on the staff are probing sample humans in an attempt to find how to identify, and beam messages to, people of high anxiety, body consciousness, hostility, passiveness, and so on.

To me there's nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency, or indeed Methodist adoption agency, saying the rules in our community are different and therefore the law shouldn't apply to us. Why not then say sharia can be applied to different parts of the country? It doesn't work.

Fortunately I own a vintage brain, and I am alive and well in the 21st century, still making records, still working at an intense pace and most of all, still having fun doing it.