Age will not be defied.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
By: Thomas B. Aldrich

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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
By: Amos Bronson Alcott


The surest sign of age is loneliness.
By: Amos Bronson Alcott


Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world-the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.
By: Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe

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The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.
By: Sri da Avabhas


Evelyn slapped Raymond on the back with a laugh. "You must be starved old friend. Come into my apartments, and we'll suffer through a deep breakfast of pure sunlight.
By: Sri da Avabhas


Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
By: Marcus Aelius Aurelius


The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.
By: Saint Augustine

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A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67.
By: Norman R. Augustine


The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
By: Wystan Hugh Auden


The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.
By: Wystan Hugh Auden

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Only little boys and old men sneer at love.
By: Louis Auchincloss


Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
By: Paul Aubuchon


No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.
By: Athenæus


Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
By: Saint Francis of Assisi
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Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.
By: Margot Asquith


Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
By: Isaac Asimov