Ages Quotes
1181 Ages quotes by 890 unique authors
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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
— Susan B. Anthony
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The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious beliefin lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us,…
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages:…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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...there is simply nothing so important to a people and its government as how many of them there are, whether their number is growing or…
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. This maxim, drawn from the experience of…
— Alexander Hamilton
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You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful.
— Francis Spellman
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The succession of individuals, connected by reproduction and belonging to a species, makes it possible for the specific form itself to last for ages. In…
— Ernst Haeckel
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The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken as unity and…
— Richard Doll
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It is by means of these that we attain perfect love, through the grace and compassion of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be glory…
— John Cassian
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Universal appreciation of art... belongs to those countries and those ages which are not, or were not, ruled by materialism. Though travel was never so…
— Walter J. Phillips
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Humanism or atheism is a wonderful philosophy of life as long as you are big, strong, and between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. But…
— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
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Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the…
— Henry Ford
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It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite…
— Winston Churchill
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Though it's frequently portrayed as this crazy, unbridled festival of rain-soaked, stoned hippies dancing in the mud, Woodstock was obviously much more than that -…
— Richie Havens
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Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of…
— Thomas A. Edison
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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
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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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