Age Quotes
9856 Age quotes by 5336 unique authors
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Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near nausea, much of…
— Louis Kronenberger
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Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
— Hermann Hesse
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You had to learn at a certain age what sarcasm is, you know?
— Penny Marshall
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The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth - pickle-jar chin,…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are…
— Thomas Jefferson
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We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition,…
— George Washington
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If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what…
— Jonathan Swift
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Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect…
— David Hume
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The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.
— Confucius
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We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and…
— John F. Kennedy
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No age seemed the age of romance to itself.
— Thomas Carlyle
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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty,…
— Michel de Montaigne
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The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.
— Thomas Paine
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My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.
— Albert Einstein
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There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists in a jingle…
— Joseph Addison
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When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles.
— Samuel Johnson
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There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived…
— Edgar Lee Masters
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But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. Men…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.
— James Russell Lowell
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With all the blessings our modern age has given to us, let us not give up the things that promote the workings of the Holy…
— Neil L. Andersen
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I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment.
— Willem Dafoe
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I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time [his grandchildren are] my age…
— Newt Gingrich
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And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up…
— Julius Erving
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They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at…
— Eugene V. Debs
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