James Joyce Quotes, Humanity Quotes, Age Quotes

But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hyper-educated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.

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A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect.

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I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I dont have to

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After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

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The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.

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I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

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We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

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If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Age Quotes , Twenties Quotes

This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

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