Do you think you have a good quote?

Question

please tell me your quote or words of wisdom and AGE. This is for a very important school project. Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

"It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes." (Josef Stalin)

Answer 2

Here are some of my favorite quotes:

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of
improving, and that's your own self.

-- Aldous Huxley (1864-1963) English Novelist



When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

-- Margaret Drabble (1939-) English Novelist



The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small
stones.

Chinese proverb



Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to "jump at the Sun."
We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the
ground.

-- Zora Neale Hurston (1903-1960) American Writer



All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about
themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to
try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your
own terms.

Harrison Ford (1942- ) American Actor



It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

-- Chinese proverb



What is now proved was once only imagined.

-- William Blake (1757-1827) English Poet



A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view.

-- Wilma Askinas (1926- ) American Author



I praise loudly; I blame softly.

-- Catherine the Second (1729-1796) Russian Empress


There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and
lifting people up.

-- John Andrew Holmes


The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and
to have it found out by accident.

-- Charles Lamb (1775-1834) British Essayist



You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

-- Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Irish Writer



Patience is passion tamed.

-- Lyman Abbott


Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

-- Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) American Publisher



Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

-- Lord Byron (1788-1824) English Poet



Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long
enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

-- Longfellow



Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't
courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

-- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English Author


He who finds diamonds must grapple in mud and mire because diamonds
are not found in polished stones. .

-- Henry B. Wilson



Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it
requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

-- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Dramatist and Poet



The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you
lost all your money.

-- Bernard Meltzer (1914-) American Law Professor



If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

-- David Viscott



It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

-- Chinese proverb



There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

-- Beverly Sills (1929-) American Opera Singer


I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but
the spirit in which we face them, that constitutes our comfort.

-- Elizabeth T. King

I hope one of these works for you!

Answer 3

If age and wisdom were 2 variables I would guess they would be directly proportional except that there would be an important factor called "Experience" without which both the variables would become zero!!! - This is my own Quotation ..... I tried to form one with both age and wisdom in it.... hope I have done justice to your question.

Warm Regards!!! Keep asking and getting asked!!! C U in another question!!!
And well i'm 23

Answer 4

the world is a ook, and those who do not travel read only a page ~by St. Augustine

in matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

don't pray for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.

the greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure ~sven goran eriksson

Answer 5

This is one of my favorite good quotes:

"All intellectual improvement arises from leisure; all leisure arises from one working for another".
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
English poet, essayist, dramatist and pioneering lexicographer

Answer 6

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

—T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men" (1925)

Answer 7

"Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof. "
-Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)

Answer 8

I'm not really sure you're going to like my favorite quotations but it's also motto (kasi eh- uhm sorry it's Tagalog):
"Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it"
-Confucius
"You can do anything in this world if you're prepared to take the consequences"
-sorry I forgot the one who said it
"Everything has reason(s)"
-sorry I forgot the one who said it

Well I hope you'll like my quotations

Answer 9

A smile is a curve that sets a lot of things straight
(33)

Answer 10

"The life of the party is often the death of morality." Julie Doolittle 26