Ages Quotes

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.
William Shakespeare

Time, Women, Men

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.
Mahatma Gandhi

Change, Live, Simple

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Madness, Rule, Nations

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

Life, Men, Wisest

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Theodore Roosevelt

Work, Leave, Mar

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.
Steve Jobs

Lost, Dark, Dead

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
Plato

Actions, Virtue, Relative

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
Walt Disney

Story, Bring, Pleasure

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Music, Greatest

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.
Jack Kingston

Love, Experience, Society

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
Henry Ward Beecher

Best, Wisdom, Past

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
Henry Ward Beecher

Principles, Hour

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
Sigmund Freud

Making, Progress, Books

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
Madeleine L'Engle

Great, Lose, Getting

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli

Experience, Wisdom, Wise

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
Andre Maurois

Love, Romantic, Humanity

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
Michel de Montaigne

Liberty, Youth, Leave

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
Honore de Balzac

Nature, Men, Human

Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.
Christian Dior

Women, After, Between

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
Francis Bacon

Men, Leave, Next

May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.
Pierre de Coubertin

Good, Friendly, Humanity

Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.
Ernest Holmes

Best, Knowledge, Science

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Time, Files, Foremost

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Exist, Exists, Explain

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.
George Santayana

Free, Reflection, Middle

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
Tom Stoppard

Power, Able, House

Men are most virile and most attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don't have time to teach him.
Hedy Lamarr

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.
Babe Ruth

Happy, America, Between

Children between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from very high functioning, capable of doing normal school work, to nonverbal who have all kinds of neurological problems.
Temple Grandin

Work, School, Children

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
William Feather

Experience, Wisdom, Wise

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