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Age Quotes by Thomas Paine
- He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.
- The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.
- Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized from age to…
- The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural philosophy, mathematical and…
- The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living, and not for…
- Money, when considered as the fruit of many years' industry, as the reward of labor, sweat and toil, as the widow's dowry and children's portion,…
- There never did, there never will, and there never can exist a parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of men, in any…
- Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity…
- All this [Paul's writing] is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the credulous…
- To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can…
- In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there were no wars;…
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
- It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
- In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every… — Brooks Atkinson
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood