Ages Quotes

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A strong woman is a woman at work, cleaning out the cesspool of the ages, and while she shovels, she talks about how she doesn't… — Marge Piercy
A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded… — Thomas B. Macaulay
The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a… — Jacques Barzun
God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man,… — Francis Bacon
The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades… — Francois Fenelon
No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty — James Anthony Froude
It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is… — Samuel Smiles
It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in… — George Bernard Shaw
Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than… — P.G. Wodehouse
I wonder if I could have been here before as I drive up the Roman road the Theater seems familiar - perhaps I headed a… — George S. Patton
So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or shudder, at the… — Alistair Cooke
I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever… — Mary Wortley Montagu
The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach… — Khalil Gibran
Beauty comes in all ages, colors, shapes, and forms. God never makes junk. — Kathy Ireland
Our use of phrase 'The Dark ages' to cover the period from 699 to 1,000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe... — Bertrand Russell
To each of man's ages the Lord gives its own anxieties. — Paulo Coelho
Individuals of all ages can make an important difference in the overall health of our ocean by the actions they take every day. Simple things… — Ted Danson
The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast. — Peter Drucker
When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built… — Edith Hamilton

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