Age Quotes - Page 249

Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom.

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.

In marriage it is never having my own way. It is rather discovering our way.

Conall,” “Aye, Alexia?” He looked up at her. Was that fear in his caramel eyes? “I am going to take advantage of you,” she said

Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic.

The savages don't have atom bombs.

There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning.

Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.

It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

I'm a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls!

Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher

It is not easy to convey a sense of wonder, let alone resurrection wonder, to another. It’s the very nature of wonder to catch us off guard, to circumvent expectations and assumptions. Wonder can’t be packaged, and it can’t be worked up. It requires some sense of being there and some sense of engagement.

The stages of human development are to strive for: (1) Besitz [Possession] (2) Wissen [Knowledge] (3) Können [Ability] (4) Sein [Being].

Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

It`s one thing for Hillary Clinton to adopt some anti-Wall Street language to try to appeal to progressives.

I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.

I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.

The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone; the secret of happiness in the declining years is to remain interested in life, as active as possible, useful to others, busy, and forward looking.

The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy.

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.