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Age Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.
- Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
- Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.
- Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.
- Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.
- When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles.
- He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of imagination…
- Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability…
- Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating…
- My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.
- The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will hear it, a patient listener…
- Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.…
- Such is the state of every age, every sex, and every condition: all have their cares, either from nature or from folly; and whoever, therefore,…
- Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the…
- An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.
- In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever…
- When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour…
- As a man advances in life he gets what is better than admiration -judgement to estimate things at their own value.
- In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but…
- Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other,…
More Age Quotes
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and… — Francis Bacon
- I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or… — David Bailey
- Thirty was a big deal for me. It was the age where I reevaluated everything - how I approached life and how… — Amy Adams