Quotes About Ages

Life is an ephemeral business, and we waste too much of it in judging where it would beseem us better to accept, that we ourselves may come to be accepted by such future ages as may pursue the study of us.

Still on it creeps, Each little moment at another's heels, Till hours, days, years, and ages are made up Of such small parts as these, and men look back Worn and bewilder'd, wondering how it is.

Unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as beauty, a grace wholly gratuitous.

A strange lot this, to be dropped down in a world of barbarians - men who see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages except their own.

To each of man's ages the Lord gives its own anxieties.

History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.

For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?

Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world's ages.

Morning brings back the heroic ages.

Today, we see the reemergence of reverence for the Divine Mother that we knew in past ages.

I think music should be experienced by people all ages.

The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music.

Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition.

Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.

Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung.

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same—dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits—the repetition through the ages is comedy.

Sitting outside on a dark night, under the stars, invites confidences amongst people of all ages, and all walks of life. It invokes an intimacy you don't find under most other circumstances.

Democracy's fatal flaw: There are more dumb people than smart people. Welcome to the new Dark Ages!

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

Artwork can be consumed for ages. The people and the state can be proud of it. That is why it is incorrect to stimulate something that has no real value.

Why have all men, I ask, in all ages, complained incessantly of the miseries of life? … They have no just reason, says one: These complaints proceed only from their discontented, repining, anxious disposition…. And can there possibly, I reply, be a more certain foundation of misery than such a wretched temper?

Conflict through the ages has not been between opposites, but versions of the same state of mind: the desire to control others.

Beauty comes in all ages, colors, shapes, and forms. God never makes junk.

God is sufficient in all ages for His church.