Age Quotes

9856 Age quotes by 5336 unique authors

But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that… — Thomas Jefferson
Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age, and to adopt as a practical maxim for the direction of… — Alexander Hamilton
How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and… — James Monroe
That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought Religion necessary for… — Benjamin Franklin
. . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in… — Ronald Reagan
I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents and grandparents… — Carl Jung
There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved… — Francoise Sagan
I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe… — Jamie Lee Curtis
Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions. — Eric Bentley
I am not against Botox, and I would never judge anyone else for getting any kind of surgical or non surgical procedure, but I think… — Kim Kardashian
The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as babies, just as the decrepitude… — Steven Pinker
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. — Ezra Pound
Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in this age of… — Gregory Rabassa
The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true… — Annie Dillard
Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a… — Emma Goldman
We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the dying… — Thomas Szasz
In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it… — Seneca the Younger
Here above the farms and ranches of the Great Plains aviation lives up to the promise that inspired dreamers through the ages. Here you are… — Stephen Coonts
The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system. — Quentin Tarantino
A renowned genius once asked a student, "What are you watching when you sit on a hillside in the late afternoon as the colors turn… — Jeremy Kagan
The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function… — Walter Lippmann
[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away… — Benjamin Franklin
...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the Middle Ages... The… — Woodrow Wilson

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