Age Quotes - Page 57

We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not fail.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly nonsensical furor.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.

Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.

The difficulties and hazards of marriage are greatly increased where backgrounds are different

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

Every one of us comes into this life with lessons to learn and gifts to give.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.

Stop shallow water from running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn.

Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!

Old age is a hindrance to creativity but cannot crush my youthful spirit.

It's only in uncertainty that we're naked and alive.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Before the day begins, you are not yet engaged in any physical activities. And it is only physically that you are constrained by the limits of time and place; mentally, there are no such boundaries.

Do to us what you will, and we will still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and as difficult as it is, we will still love you. But we assured that we'll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves, we will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.

It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone.

Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.