Age Quote by Anton Chekhov

Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think that - apart from the fields of science and medicine - we live in an age of decline. Look at the world.…

— Christopher Lee

Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result…

— Janice Rogers Brown

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

— George Santayana

“The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappointment of the high expectations of the self…

— Walker Percy

“Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material improvement. Knowledge is a viaticum. Though is a prime necessity; truth is nourishment, like…

— Victor Hugo

[Every age], however destitute of science or virtue, sufficiently abounds with acts of blood and military renown.

— Edward Gibbon

When there is no feeling of accomplishment, children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline.

— Joe Whitney

In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.

— Mignon McLaughlin

There are three influences which appear to Us to have the chief place in effecting this downgrade movement of society. These are-first, the distaste…

— Pope Leo XIII

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity…

— Francis Bacon