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“When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But when to truth allied, the wound she gives Sinks deep, and to remotest ages lives.”

Giving Age Wings Wounds Satire Falsehood Age Life

Book:The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Copious Notes and a Life of the Author

Source: The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Copious Notes and a Life of the Author

“The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a Golden Age which would arrive without fail once the noble human race could act according to its whims.”

Humans Has Beens Age Past Race Vision Failing Society Century Human Nature Goodness Noble Doctrine Golden Human Race Mischief Whim Golden Age

Author:Jacob Burckhardt

“History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.”

Age Records Society Notes Worthy Occasions Every Occasion

Book:Force and Freedom: Reflections on History

Source: Force and Freedom: Reflections on History

“A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.”

Men Age White White Man Widows Doubtful

Author:Horace Greeley

“Books are certainly old fashioned, but only people with a very limited perception are silly enough to condemn ideas because of their age. It is, of course, equally silly to condemn the new fangled simply because it is strange.”

People Book Ideas Enough Age Courses Strange Perception Silly Old Fashioned

Author:Prince Philip

“Fear accomplishes much in love. The husband of the Middle Ages was loved by his wife for his very severity. The bride of William the Conqueror, having been beaten by him, recognized him by this token for her lord and husband”

Age Fear Lord Wife Middle Husband Accomplish Beaten Middle Ages Brides Conqueror Tokens Severity William The Conqueror

Author:Jules Michelet

“Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the fearless advocates of liberty and justice.”

Men Age Justice Liberty Rights All Time Fearless Rebellion Infidel Liberty And Justice

Book:An Oration on the Gods

Source: An Oration on the Gods

“It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing”

Men May Done Whole Age Action Wise Gains Harder Ill Whole Life Foolish Applause Censure

Author:David Hume

“Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth; there are also corresponding stages in the growth of wisdom in him.”

Men Age Growth Middle Stage Youth Adolescence Middle Ages Corresponding Boyhood

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Old age is the fourth stage. By the time one reaches this stage of his journey, he must have discovered that the joys available in this world are trivial and fleeting. He must be equipped with the higher knowledge of spiritual joy, available through delving into the inner spring of Bliss. Through his experiences, his heart must have softened and be filled with compassion. He has to be engrossed in promoting the progress of all beings without distinction. And he must be eager to share with others the knowledge he has accumulated and the benefit of his experiences.”

“In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the memory of our age alive.”

Years May Two Age Memories Alive Politician Thousand Forgotten Immortality Thousand Years Bernard Shaw Stravinsky Madame Curie

Author:Anthony Burgess

“This is great art, we've been told this by the great pundits of our age. And in consequence why should we bother to learn? There's nothing more delightful than to be told, 'You don't have to learn, my boy. There's nothing in it. Modern art? There's nothing in it.”

Should Art Age Boys Modern Consequence Bother Delightful Great Art Modernism Modern Art My Boys Pundits

Author:Anthony Burgess

“Nicholas Anelka - 24 years of age but he's been around a lot longer than that”

Years Age

Author:Kevin Keegan

“Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.”

Years Age Parent Example Youth Periods Adolescence Rapids Rapid Change

Author:Al Bernstein

“It's amazing when you get to a certain age, and you talk about sleep in the same way you spoke about getting inebriated... I got eight hours last night. It was fantastic!”

Way Age Lasts Night Certain Hours Sleep Eight Fantastic Spokes Last Night

Author:Johnny Depp

“Just the very thought of someone my age going to visit old girlfriends had instant appeal.Even women think, 'That would be interesting.' Not comfortable, but interesting. It is not a comfortable film at any point.”

Thinking Would Be Age Film Interesting Comfort Comfortable Appeals Instant Girlfriend Old Girlfriend

Author:Bill Murray

“The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.”

Age Stage Criticism Presses Pulpit Censure

Author:Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

“Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.”

Men Humans Seems Age Faces Universe Weakness Size Dust Encounters Sublime

Book:The Art of Travel

Source: The Art of Travel

“The cross is the centre of the world's history; the incarnation of Christ and the crucifiction of our Lord are the pivot round which all the events of the ages revolve. The testimony of Christ was the spirit of prophecy, and the growing power of Jesus is the spirit of history”

World Age Spirit Jesus Christ Fiction Lord Growing Events Crosses Rounds Prophecy Centre Testimony Our Lord Incarnation

Book:Sermons Preached in Manchester: First series

Source: Sermons Preached in Manchester: First series

“How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?”

Art Age Understanding Progress Understood Opposites Barbarians

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it.”

World Age Computer Complexes Bounds Devices Reliability

Book:Endless horizons

Source: Endless horizons

“At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.”

Years Stills Age Three Plans Aging Quarters Three Years Sixty

Author:Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“Is suffering so very serious? ...I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful... hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain... is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.”

Men Kind Age Pain Suffering Serious Painful Illness Worthy Old Age Referring Bearable Pain And Suffering Suffering And Pain Suffering Pain Pain Suffering

Author:Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“I'm now at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was.”

Age Prove

Author:Rex Harrison

“In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'”

Thinking Kind Facts Age Young Courage Bravery Bullying Young Age Bullied Being Bullied

Author:Lady Gaga

“The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of the time is always determined by the views on which the opposing schools agree. They become the unspoken presuppositions of all thought, and common and unquestioningly accepted foundations on which all discussion proceeds.”

Age School Views Common Issues Intellectual Agree Foundation Filled Determined Accepted Atmosphere Discussion Opposing Unspoken

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“It is often the case with finer natures, that when the fire of the spirit dies out with increasing age, the power of the intellect is unaltered or increased.”

Age Spirit Dies Cases Fire Intellect Self Confidence

Author:Margaret Gatty

“I actually think if you have a strong junior class, that's the best possible scenario. In their senior year, guys who are on the threshold of making it to the NBA start getting preoccupied in their thoughts elsewhere more than concerning themselves with the present. The junior class is the perfect age.”

Ifs Thinking Years Age Guy Strong Perfect Class Nba Elsewhere Senior Juniors Scenarios Threshold Senior Year

Author:Rick Pitino

“You seem to have no real purpose in life and won't realize at the age of twenty-two that for a man life means work, and hard work if you mean to succeed.”

Ifs Men Mean Two Real Hard Seems Age Purpose Realizing Work Hard Work Succeed Twenties Purpose Of Life Life Means Twenty Two

Author:Lady Randolph Churchill

“Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!”

Ifs Art Age Young Poet Art Is Aging

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“I have committed myself to joy. I have come to realize that those who make space for joy, those who prefer nothing to joy, those who desire the utter reality, will most assuredly have it. We must not be afraid to announce it to refugees, slum dwellers, saddened prisoners, angry prophets. Now and then we must even announce it to ourselves. In this prison of now, in this cynical and sophisticated age, someone must believe in joy.”

Believe Reality Age Joy Desire Realizing Space Angry Prison Committed Prophet Prisoner Cynical Now And Then Sophisticated Refugee Slums Saddened Dwellers

Author:Richard Rohr

“I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.”

World Age Humanity Mass International Golden Yearning Tranquility Golden Age

Author:Shirley Hufstedler

“That's when I use the word frustrating, when your body breaks down or your body doesn't do the things I'm asking it to do at my age, because I'm trying to keep up with the Joneses.”

Trying Use Body Age Break Asking Your Body Breaking Down Frustrating

Author:Roger Clemens

“When I first met my agent, I said, "If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette."”

Ifs Firsts Said Age Like You Personality Fit Mets Come Up Agents Range Blonde Brunette

Author:Tia Carrere

“The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.”

Humans Age Choices Issues Concern Human Life Ongoing Immune Second Choice

Author:Diane Duane

“People of all ages, including children, have been exposed to clever and eye-catching advertising material, .. All that will now change. Tobacco advertising is going to end, and it's going to end soon,.”

People Children Has Beens Ends Eye Age Materials Including Clever Advertising Exposed Catching Tobacco Eye Catching

Author:Frank Dobson

“I don`t think the Disney Channel gives us enough credit for the age range Lizzie McGuire actually has. College students come up to me, grandparents, famous people. It`s really funny.”

People Thinking Giving Enough Age Students College Come Up Credit Range Grandparent College Students Disney Channel

Author:Hilary Duff

“I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age.”

Shows Age Middle Members Hatred Mirrors Aging Mortality Middle Ages Family Members

Book:Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

“I think I wanted to be on Top Gear from a fairly young age because I loved cars and I wanted to do something on telly because I loved TV. I know that I?m ridiculously lucky”

Thinking Knows Age Wanted Young Car Tvs Lucky Luck Young Age Gears Top Gear

Author:Richard Hammond

“I feel fortunate that, by the age of 40, I had crammed in an entire political career.I had been in the Cabinet and been leader of the party, so now I can branch out into other things... it is a very liberating feeling.”

Feels I Can Feelings Age Political Party Leader Careers Fortunate Branches Liberating Cabinets Age Of 40

Author:William Hague

“We wanted to hear from viewers about why they watch or participate in call-ins on C-SPAN, ... Viewers of all ages and walks of life wrote to us, including actresses, stand-up comics, parents and students. What's clear after reading the entries is the impact that call-ins have had on the political conversation on the network.”

Age Wanted Political Reading Parent Walks Watches Clear Students Conversation Impact Including Actresses Participation Viewers Entry Walks Of Life

Author:Brian Lamb

“The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age.”

Age Past Form Artist Genuine Midst Great Art Great Artist Timeliness

Author:Franz Marc

“In this age of electronic money, investors are no longer seduced by a financial 'dance of a thousand veils.' Only hard and accurate information on reserves, current accounts, and monetary and fiscal conditions will keep capital from fleeing precipitously at the first sign of trouble.”

Firsts Hard Age Trouble Conditions Information Thousand Accounts Financial Currents Investors Accurate Reserves Veils Monetary Fleeing Accurate Information

Author:Lawrence Summers

“I come from a family of tall, curvy women. I developed in my body and my shape far earlier, so from a young age I accepted it. I embraced it and saw it as an advantage.”

Body Age Young Saws Shapes Advantage Accepted Tall Young Age Curvy Curvy Women

Author:Ricki-Lee Coulter

“There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof of the love with which they regarded Nature.”

Made Country Might Age Notes Proof Quotations

Author:Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

“Our alliance with AARP provides valuable insights into the critical 50- plus consumer segment. For more than two decades, The Home Depot has delivered home improvement know-how to customers of all ages. With the help of AARP, our newest workshops will address the specific interests of customers 50 and over.”

Knows Two Helping Home Age Interest Know How Valuable Insight Critical Customers Decades Improvement Consumers Addresses Plus Alliances Workshops Home Improvement

Author:Robert Nardelli

“By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.”

Men Age Economy Century Birthday Twentieth Century Small Man

Book:the new industrial state

Source: the new industrial state

“I'd like to prove to women my age that there can still be good years ahead of us.”

Years Stills Age Prove Be Good Good Years

Author:Kirstie Alley

“This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming up behind me. So it's very much finding my own place.”

Littles Age My Own Behinds Gone Generations Middle Findings Mentor Middle Ages New Generation

Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“Steroids are] not healthy, ... There's a real health issue with steroid abuse. At any level, but particularly a young age level. There are many adverse health effects so I think it's a concern we have to take as a college-level group.”

Thinking Real Age Healthy Concern Abuse Steroid

Author:Ben Miller

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