Quotes About Progress

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age.

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document: it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age.

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better -- it is just turning around as usual.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Home wasn't built in a day.

The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.

If you rest, you rust.

Kid to his Dad as they watch TV: Dad, tell me again how when you were my age you had to walk all the way across the room to change a channel.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap ... but by the seeds you plant!

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Nothing recedes like success.

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.