Catullus Quotes, Age Quotes

Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!

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We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances.

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As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

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Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

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My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Eye Quotes , Age Quotes

Our affections and beliefs are wiser than we; the best that is in us is better than we can understand; for it is grounded beyond experience, and guides us, blindfold but safe, from one age on to another.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Age Quotes , Safe Quotes

We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper.

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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

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A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.

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Philosophers have often held dispute As to the seat of thought in man and brute For that the power of thought attends the latter My friend, thy beau, hath made a settled matter, And spite of dogmas current in all ages, One settled fact is better than ten sages. (O,Tempora! O,Mores!)

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In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Age Quotes , Matter Quotes

O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself.

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Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isn’t about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.

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Tags : A. R. Rahman Quotes , Soul Quotes , Age Quotes

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

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Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Heart Quotes , Age Quotes

Our relationship with alcohol is a hologram for how human beings relate to the natural world. When you get to that level of brown liquor - an age distillate of a fermented thing, grain that we learned how to plant and make grow - it is in some ways the best expression of what humans are able to do. Nobody else can make that! And it's delicious.

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I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

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And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.

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The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.

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