Age Quotes - Page 27

Everyone thinks their baby is a genius. People find it delightfully refreshing when I tell them, My baby? Totally average. Like, 100 percent average.

When you say to yourself, 'I am going to have a pleasant visit or a pleasant journey,' you are literally sending elements and forces ahead of your body that will arrange things to make your visit or journey pleasant. When before the visit or the journey or the shopping trip you are in a bad humour, or fearful or apprehensive of something unpleasant, you are sending unseen agencies ahead of you which will make some kind of unpleasantness. Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in advance.

The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.

Don't be governed by the grid, govern the grid. A grid is like a lion cage - if the trainer stays too long it gets eaten up. You have to know when to leave the cage - you have to know when to leave the grid.

The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

If a marriage is going to work well, it must be on a solid footing, namely money, and of that commodity it is the girl with the smallest dowry who, to my knowledge, consumes the most, to infuriate her husband. All the same, it is only fair that the marriage should pay for past pleasures, since it will scarcely procure any in the future.

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.

Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realised that you either became a power or you were crushed

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Another murder I committed made the front page.

People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts.

Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.

The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

Shortly after that, we got management problems over in England, and Judas Priest asked me to join.

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.