Quotes
Quotes about Age
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here. No jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle. Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.
By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.
Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
All furnished, all in arms; All plum'd like estridges that with the wind Bated like eagles having lately bathed; Glittering in golden coats like images; As full of spirit as the month of May And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.
For every marriage then is best in tune, When that the wife is May, the husband June.
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
Whoever controls the media - the images - controls the culture.
He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.
Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.
In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow "too much.".
"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.
I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.
Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
