Age Quotes

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There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Isaac D'Israeli

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

William Ellery Channing

We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

Madeleine L'Engle

Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Margaret Atwood

Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.

Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.

The people who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

Randall Jarrell

When the moon is in the seventh house,
And Jupiter aligns with Mars,
Then peace will guide the planets,
And love will steer the stars;
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kind, sunshiny old age.

Lydia Maria Child

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

H. P. Lovecraft

One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

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.

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

Alfred Marshall

Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead centre of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Franklin Pierce Adams

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.

And almost every one when age,
Disease, or sorrows strike him,
Inclines to think there is a God,
Or something very like Him.

Arthur Hugh Clough

I don't need you to remind me of my age, I have a bladder to do that for me.

It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

Franklin Pierce Adams