Age Quote by Elbert Hubbard

There were some ages in Western history that have occasionally been called Dark. They were dark, it is said, because in them learning declined,…

— Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk

Dirty old men, ignoring society, continue to follow nature.

— Mason Cooley

When men, lost in the devious ways of error and self, have forgotten the "heavenly birth," ... they set up artificial standards by which…

— James Allen

The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell,…

— Barbara Tuchman

What is peculiar to modern societies is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to speaking of…

— Michel Foucault

“For in the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way…

— George Eliot

“He told them therefore that He was not a Teacher asking for a disciple who would parrot His sayings; He was a Saviour Who…

— Fulton J. Sheen

It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They are dark,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“How has the incessant, grinding campaign of socio-scientific insistence upon the naturalness of sexual monogamy combined with a couple thousand years of fire and…

— Christopher Ryan

Another real danger to young men is thoughtlessness and lack of consideration. Lack of thought is one simple reason why thousands of souls are…

— Anonymous

At the core of all successful societies are procedures for blocking the advancement of bad men

— Paul Collier

Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for…

— C. S. Lewis