Quotes 901 till 920 of 1369.
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The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
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The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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The age of the book is almost gone.
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The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.
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The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
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The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.
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The bad thing about young people starting a company is that sometimes they do it for the wrong reasons or because they have the wrong skill set, but the good thing is that they don't have any of the old paradigms baked into them, so they have a lot of the bright new ideas that are harder to come by as you get older.
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The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
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The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.
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The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, ''culture.'' It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing ''art'' to defend their collapsing culture.
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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.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. It's a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and it's hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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