Age Quote by Oscar Wilde

The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal intellectuals mechanically…

— George Orwell

Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms

— Jorge Luis Borges

Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms.

— Garry Kasparov

September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational. And such old, old stuff. The…

— Martin Amis

“Bad ages to live through are good ages to learn from.”

— Eugen Weber

We write songs that hit different people at different ages where they live.

— Jay DeMarcus

Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

— Oscar Wilde

To live without history is to live like an infant, constantly amazed and challenged by a strange and unnamed world.

— Joan Nestle

They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Each person, as they live through history, can't see it all.

— David Grann

You can't live in history. You've got to build for the future.

— Ruud Gullit

Institutions do live on their history.

— Bob Hawke