Age

I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.

- George Gordon Byron Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

- Anne Bradstreet Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.

- Earl Wilson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The four stages of a man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence.

- Arthur Gordon 'Art' Linkletter Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.

- Angela Carter Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.

- Ethel Barrymore Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries the cross, in a way, until blacks make inroads in other dimensions.

- Arthur Ashe Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Theatre director a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

- James Agate Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Senescence begins And middle age ends, The day your descendents, Outnumber your friends.

- Ogden Nash Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

- Dante Alighieri Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

- Monty Python Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

- Amos Bronson Alcott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A lady of a ''certain age,'' which means certainly aged.

- Lord Byron Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

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The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell the truth.

- H. L. Mencken Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I can trust my friends. . . . These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.

- Cher Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged no harm can be done.

- Jane Austen Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice.

- Mary Astell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. And how do you know laughter if there is no pain to compare it with

- Erma Bombeck Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

This is the first convention of the space age where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

- David Brinkley Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

For books are more than books, they are the lifeThe very heart and core of ages past,The reason why men lived and worked and died,The essence and quintessence of their lives.

- Amy Lowell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.

- John Florio Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.

- Mary Astell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Drink to lofty hopes that cool -Visions of a perfect State.

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

- Maya Angelou Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes