"The trouble with our age is all signposts……" — Louis Kronenberger

"The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination."

— Louis Kronenberger

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58 Quotes by Louis Kronenberger

Louis Kronenberger has 58 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so…
The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous…
The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American…
Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or…
True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps…
If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own,…
Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria,…
The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a…
One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive…
From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish…
A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied…
Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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