Ages Quotes
1181 Ages quotes by 890 unique authors
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The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for…
— Jane Austen
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I cannot regret it. They tell us in the temple that true joy is found only in freedom from the Wheel that is death and…
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Tom Selleck brings in the babes of all ages, I have to tell you. You can be 60, 80, or 16 and still love that…
— Bridget Moynahan
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Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic,…
— L. Frank Baum
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The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
— William Henry Harrison
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The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of…
— Mark Twain
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The actions of bad men produce only temporary evil, the actions of good men only temporary good ; and eventually the good and the evil…
— Henry Thomas Buckle
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The road, more than simply a system of regulations and designs, is a place where many millions of us, with only loose parameters for how…
— Tom Vanderbilt
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The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term. They are engines of propaganda for…
— Stanley Baldwin
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The girl's face was the color of talcum. Her uncle's was a death mask, a bone structure overlaid by parchment. Shane's was granite, with a…
— Cornell Woolrich
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Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and…
— James Black
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It is probable that a greater number of monuments of the skill and industry of man will, in the course of the ages, be collected…
— Charles Lyell
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The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be…
— John Quincy Adams
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And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of…
— Aldous Huxley
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One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now.
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Americans of all ages are earning less than they did two decades ago when adjusted for inflation. Yet they’re paying more in taxes.
— Simon Black
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From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.
— Ade Edmondson
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Women are usually only interesting to studio executives when they are fecund, between the ages of 15 and 30. I decided to get through the…
— Tyne Daly
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And may that Being who is supreme over all, the Patron of order, the Fountain of justice, and the Protector, in all ages of the…
— John Quincy Adams
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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
— Pericles
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It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
— Ibrahim Babangida
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The church may go through her dark ages, but Christ is with her in the midnight; she may pass through her fiery furnace, but Christ…
— Charles Spurgeon
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In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began…
— Nikola Tesla
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Like the priestly cult of the Middle Ages, the modern priestly cult of "scientific" psychotherapists exist overwhelmingly to stultify or blunt a too-acute insight into…
— Kenny Smith
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