Quotes About Ages

this beast epic is throughout a keen satire not only upon medieval society, but upon human nature in all ages.

Was this what music was, was it time itself containing fractions of seconds, minutes, hours, and all the ages, all the generations?

The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs ... has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.

Time flows through the ages like an endless river, never exhausting itself.

Such an archetypal experience of sunrise is common to us all, throughout the history of all times and ages. The soul has a desire for light and an irrepressible urge to rise out of primal darkness. The moment in which light comes is God – it brings redemption, release.

The stereotype of the bourgeois couple to which the motif of the ages of life corresponds becomes a well-oiled machine: each generation pushes the next one toward the exit.

...[O]ur Founding Fathers enshrined a constitutional separation of powers for the ages undeluded by the fantasy that angels would win elections.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Accursed be he who willingly saddens an immortal spirit---doomed to infamy in later, wiser ages, doomed in future stages of his own being to deadly penance, only short of death.

Women, as well as men, in all ages and in all places, have danced on the earth, danced the life dance, danced joy, danced grief, danced despair, and danced hope. Literally and metaphorically, by their very lives.

The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all our other pleasures, outlast them, and remain to console us for their loss.

Zidul acesta e nebun, nu ?tiu ce are, îmi v?d pe el trei umbre. la trei vârste diferite. N-am f?cut niciodat? trei umbre p?mântului, cel mult dou?, odat? într-o duminic?, g?tit cu vise noi.

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny. It's the only one. It's based on thousands of years of human experience. There is nothing narrow about the conservative philosophy. It's a liberating philosophy. It is a magnificent philosophy. It is a philosophy for the ages, for all times.

He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.

Wisdom of the Ages: "Brian Williams Week" Now that NBC is giving him a sixth month "leave" I wonder if he will be "Killing Time-In Saudi Arabia!

Special Super Bowl Wisdom of the Ages: "Super Bowl Sunday" "Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain-and all the children are insane.-" The Doors

He called him by his name, no doubt, but the divine historian thought not fit to record it, for, because he refused to raise up the name of the dead, he deserved not to have his name preserved to future ages in this history. Providence

he saw her as she was—a hideous phantom of the corruption of the ages.

If you have life in you, you have access to the secrets of the ages, for the truth of the universe resides in each and every human being

I don't know why I'm always surprised when vampires act as weird as ordinary humans. It's not like they gain the wisdom of the ages with the transformation.

Progress ages badly. Each generation brings a new model of progressivism which discards with contempt the previous model. Nothing is more grotesque than yesterday's progressive.

After all, what makes any event important, unless by its observation we become better and wiser, and learn 'to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly before God'? To those who are possessed of this spirit there is scarcely any book of incident so trifling that does not afford some profit, while to others the experience of ages seems of no use; and even to pour out to them the treasures of wisdom is throwing the jewels of instruction away.

Joy, joy, joy! Past ages crowd on thee, but each one remembers, And the future is dark, and the present is spread, Like a pillow of thorns for thy slumberless head.

Look," says the Puritan preacher, the doctrine is "as in nature, reason teacheth and experience evidenceth"; to deny it "is to go against the experience of all ages, the common sense of all men.