Ages Quotes

The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.

Americans of all ages deserve quality end-of-life medical care.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16.

The intolerance of the Middle, and even later, Ages, is a fact all too familiar to every one.

After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.

Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages.

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

In the early ages, I believe not much thought was given to what man is and what his real functions should be, and what is the real purpose of his life.

If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.

This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.

Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.

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

It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.

Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.

It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.

One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's 9 and it's really a good film for all ages.

I definitely don't feel like I'm 71. I feel like I did when I was - between 30 and 40. The body ages. The mind doesn't.