Age Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Many older people I know are focused on the past. When they talk about the future, they are, quite understandably, preoccupied with the hassles…

— Bari Weiss

As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places. As to old persons, it seems…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.

— Jared Diamond

“...please accept the fact that people do not change over time.The elderly are, in reality, age tikes.Conversely, the young are juvenile codgers.Granted, we might…

— Chuck Palahniuk

It is a grave error for historians of literature to interpret the national spirit of the age in an oversimplified manner, ignoring the complexity…

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

The golden age has not passed; it lies in the future.

— Paul Signac

The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the…

— James Russell Lowell

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

History has shown us that the past lives too long, and the future dies too young.

— Anonymous

A commonplace of political rhetoric has it that the quality of a civilization may be measured by how it cares for its elderly. Just…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer,…

— William E. Gladstone