Ages Quotes

1181 Ages quotes by 890 unique authors

At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one side, and the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Truth is new, as well as old. It has new forms; and where you may find a new statement, an earnest statement, you may conclude… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
All the great ages have been ages of belief. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a principle which is pure, placed in the human mind, which in different places and ages hath had different names. It is, however,… — John Woolman
To say that we are able by our own efforts to think good thoughts or give God spiritual obedience before we are spiritually regenerate is… — John Owen
Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights… — M.F.K. Fisher
I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages… — Henry Ford
Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries, only to be… — James Rollins
Steve Forman strafes the south Florida scene with Boca Knights, an outrageously funny mystery novel with a raft of offbeat characters and prose that moves… — Douglas Preston
Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages. — William J. Brennan
A lean, loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet peeped out of his shoes.… — William Christopher Handy
Go on, dear brother; but an inch of time remains, and then eternal ages roll on for ever--but an inch on which we can stand… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Chirren [children] is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and forty-two. — Walter Mosley
We Die Young is about gang violence. That was something that was happening in Seattle, something that kinda opened our eyes. It just seemed like… — Layne Staley
There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a… — Mark Twain
Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention to misguided advice… — Dean Koontz
Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance. — Honore de Balzac
The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Of course the sands of Present Time are running out from under our feet. And why not? The Great Conundrum: 'What are we here for?'… — Brion Gysin
The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck… — Gilbert Murray
Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected,… — Marvin Olasky
The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated… — William D. Leahy
People will never understand the patience a photographer requires to make a great photograph, all they see is the end result. I can stand in… — Alfred Eisenstaedt

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