Codgers Quotes & Sayings

Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor. — J. William Fulbright

The hardest part of it was really being away from my family - I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard. — James Daly

Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do. — Roger Babson

It was an old, old, old, old lady,
And a boy who was half-past three;
And the way they played together
Was beautiful to see. — Henry Cuyler Bunner

Enlightenment is to be outside the circle, the circle of death and rebirth. There is a circle inside you. If you meditate and focus on your third eye, you will see a circle of light. — Frederick Lenz

an unlovely gaggle of contrary old codgers". — Bill Rowe

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. — Frederick Douglass

The lessons we learn in sadness and from loss are those that abide. Sorrow clarifies the mind, steadies it, and forces it to weigh things correctly. The soil moist with tears best feeds the seeds of truth. — Theodore T. Munger

My earliest influences would definitely be my father, just seeing him play in different bands and going to his shows and going to the rehearsals. You know what I'm saying, it was the typical story of a son looking up to his dad. So the years that my father was around, my father was my biggest influence. — Jon Connor

The wonderful thing about acting is they're always going to need old codgers! — George Takei

But I knew that it wasn't fair to either of us to hold on just when he had let go. - Abby Abernathy — Jamie McGuire

What the hell is going on, Luc?" He arched a brow. "How about a thank-you first? Maybe? I mean, I did get your asses out of trouble, didn't I? I really would like a thank-you. Maybe a hug? I'm feeling kind of needy. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I can't imagine turning into one of those codgers who no longer reads fiction. I'm regularly stirred by it and suffer no anxiety of influence. Influence me! That was my credo then, as I was developing and learning, and remains so now, as I'm developing and learning. — Adam Ross

The nights and days had merged, trapped in that little house held captive by a stubborn old woman. — Srividya Srinivasan

Please accept the fact that people do not change over time.The elderly are, in reality, age tikes.Conversely, the young are juvenile codgers.Granted, we might develop some skills, achieve some profound insights over a lifetime, but by and large who you are at eighty-five is who you were at five.One is either born intelligent or not.The body ages, grows, passes through near-lunatic phases of reproductive frenzy, but you are born and die the same person. — Chuck Palahniuk

I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with. — Joshua Homme

The Bucket List is a movie about two old codgers who are nothing like people, both suffering from cancer that is nothing like cancer, and setting off on adventures that are nothing like possible. I urgently advise hospitals: Do not make the DVD available to your patients; there may be an outbreak of bedpans thrown at TV screens. — Roger Ebert