Age Quotes - Page 87

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy.

Language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly.

Courage is an angel which makes the difference between a good life and a great life.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.

Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub.

The intent and not the deed Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly Does greatly.

You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage.

Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them.

Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.

Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.

Art is an international language, understood by all.

The word 'however' is like an imp coiled beneath your chair. It induces ink to form words you have not yet seen, and lines to march across the page and overshoot the margin. There are no endings. If you think so you are deceived as to their nature. They are all beginnings. Here is one.

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us.

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.

You find no difficulty in trusting the Lord with the management of the universe and all the outward creation, and can your case be any more complex or difficult than these, that you need to be anxious or troubled about His management of it?

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

I am old, so give me your peace. Wisdom comes with age.

If the garbage man calls, tell him we don't want any.

What helps with aging is serious cognition - thinking and understanding. You have to truly grasp that everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here?

We are justified freely, for Christ’s sake, by faith, without the exertion of our own strength, gaining of merit, or doing of works. To the age-old question, ‘What shall I do to be saved?’ the confessional answer is shocking: ‘Nothing! Just be still; shut up and listen for once in your life to what God the Almighty, creator and redeemer, is saying to his world and to you in the death and resurrection of his Son! Listen and believe!’

For you wake one day, look around and say, somebody wonderful married me.

Happy relationships depend not on finding the right person, but on being the right person.