Age Quote by Joan Collins

“To give the devil its due, ours is the best Age men ever lived in; we are all more comfortable and virtuous than we…

— John Galsworthy

“The test of character posed by the gentleness of God's approach to us is especially dangerous for those formed by the ideas that dominate…

— Dallas Willard

“IT’S RATHER ODD THAT in the wake of the bloodiest century in history—a twentieth century in which scores of millions of human beings were…

— Charles J. Chaput

“The nobility of age is that it conceals from the young the futility of effort.”

— Yeo-tze

“It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable…

— Theodore Roszak

“The most obstinate beliefs that mortals entertain about themselves are such as they have no evidence for beyond a constant, spontaneous pulsing of their…

— George Eliot

“It is remarkably precocious when a person accomplishes anything after the age of thirty.”

— Bauvard

“constantly keeping in mind the truth that external things being beyond our power and subject to fortune are unimportant, to laugh rather than weep…

— Francis Caldwell Holland

“...the salient feature of the absurd age I was at--an age which for all its alleged awkwardness, is prodigiously rich-- is that reason is…

— proust

“Sometimes it is foolish to articulate an ambition too early--exposing it prematurely to the laughter and skepticism of the world can destroy it before…

— Robert Harris

“Human beings have a remarkable talent for persuading themselves of the authenticity and nobility of aspects of themselves which are in fact expedient, spurious,…

— Salman Rushdie

“The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise;…

— William Makepeace Thackeray