Age Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image ““The ages live in history through their anachronisms.”” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Anachronism History Humor Wilde
“As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of today is present, so some flitting perspectives and demi-experiences of the life… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“There is an underside to every age about which history does not often speak, because history is written from records left by the privileged”.” — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The old continue to be old-fashioned, though their youths were modern. We grow backward, aging into our father’s opinions and even into those of… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Whereas we, the dead, are the true inheritors of the Modern. The live lot assemble time into lazy decadences--ten-year periods of conspicuous attitudinising, which… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“Time changes and our history fades. The young forget about the old and the old never forget the young.” — Zachary Frerichs Copy Share Image
“There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Old. Old is relative, girl. No, what makes them special is that they are books from history.” — Hannah Crow Copy Share Image
“A later age looks back with nostalgia at an earlier one and depicts it in terms of ideals and activities now receding.” — Romila Thapar Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
