Quotes with age

Quotes 421 till 440 of 628.

  • George Steiner The age of the book is almost gone.
    George Steiner
    French-born American Critic, Novelist (1929 - 2020)
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  • Edmund Burke The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • T. S. Eliot The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Ban Ki-moon The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The cinema, like the detective story, enables us to experience without danger to ourselves all the excitements, passions, and fantasies which have to be repressed in a humanistic age.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • W. H. Auden 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.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor The First World War had begun, imposed on the statesmen of Europe by railway timetables. It was an unexpected climax to the railway age.
    The First World War (1963) p. 20
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Dylan Thomas The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.
    Dylan Thomas
    English poet (1914 - 1953)
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  • Matthew Arnold The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Friedrich Melchior Grimm The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.
    Friedrich Melchior Grimm
    German-born French-language journalist, art critic and diplomat
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  • Friedrich Melchior Grimm The glory of a people and of an age is always the work of a small number of great men, and disappears with them.
    Friedrich Melchior Grimm
    German-born French-language journalist, art critic and diplomat
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Benjamin Haydon The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
    An Old Mans Diary (1981) p. 39
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • C. S. Lewis The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It will continue as it has begun! The wheel runs fast, therefore the wheel will run Faster for ever, The old age is done, We have new lights and see without the sun.
    The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 186-187
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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