Age Quotes - Page 245

I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.

Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

Present day statesmen are making the biggest blunder of the age if they believe that there can be any peace without equity and justice to all mankind.

The whole contains nothing that is not for its advantage. By remembering that I am part of such a whole, I shall be content with everything that happens.

Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.

Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point.

A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

...this remedy is the power of the citizens; they have to prevent the establishment of such an autocratic regime that arrogates to itself a higher wisdom than that of the average citizen. This is the fundamental difference between freedom and serfdom.

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war. The wars of our age are not at variance with popular economic doctrines; they are, on the contrary, the inescapable result of a consistent application of these doctrines.

The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.

But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.

This is the age of oddities let loose.

The words are in my own internal language, and mean more than I could ever explain.

John Lennon at his best despised cheap sentiment and had to learn the hard way that once you've made your mark on history those who can't will be so grateful they'll turn it into a cage for you.

Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it’s the ability to manipulate concepts.

Moral courage, to me, is much more demanding than physical courage.

Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head.

A bachelor lives like a king and dies like a beggar.

You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.

Life can change in a moment, so we must appreciate every single day we are given.

Expand the mind, seek and you shall find.

Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.