I do not find that the age or country makes the least difference; no, nor the language the actors spoke, nor the religion which they professed, whether Arab in the desert or Frenchman in the Academy. I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion.
Self-interest, that leprosy of the age, attacks us from infancy, and we are startled to observe little heads calculate before knowing how to reflect.
The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage; A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er the weight Of seventy years, to loftier height.
Man's life is like unto a winter's day,-- Some break their fast and so depart away; Others stay dinner, then depart full fed; The longest age but sups and goes to bed. O reader, then behold and see! As we are now, so must you be.
Who, if he is honest towards himself, could say that the religion of his manhood was the same as that of his childhood, or the religion of his old age the same as the religion of his manhood? It is easy to deceive ourselves, and to say that the most perfect faith is a childlike faith. Nothing can be truer, and the older we grow the more we learn to understand the wisdom of a childlike faith. But before we can learn that, we have first to learn another lesson, namely, to put away childish things. There is the same glow about the setting sun as there is about the rising sun; but there lies between the two a whole world, a journey through the whole sky, and over the whole earth.
Remember the country and the age in which we live. Remember that we are English, that we are Christians. Consult your own understanding, your own sense of the probable
You might look into the eyes of an infant, born mere minutes ago, to find that she is a thousand years old. Their limitless warmth and wisdom belie her true age.
Habeo senectuti magnam gratiam, qu? mihi sermonis aviditatem auxit=--I owe it to old age, that my relish for conversation is so increased.
The age made no sign when Shakespeare, its noblest son, passed away.
Schon sind die Rosen eurer Jugend; / Allein die Zeit zerstoret sie. / Nur die Talente, nur die Tugend / Veralten nicht und sterben nie=--Beautiful are the roses of your youth; but time destroys them; only talents, only virtue age not and never die.
The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
Old age is a heavy burden.
The surest sign of age is loneliness.
Jeune, on conserve pour sa vieillesse; vieux, on epargne pour la mort=--In youth men save for old age; in old age, they hoard for death.
On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quench'd the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth: Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare.
Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.
Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
If a man should register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc., beginning from his youth, and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.--_Swift._
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself / Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years; / But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, / Unhurt amidst the war of elements, / The wrecks of matter and the crash of worlds.
He was not of an age, but for all time.
Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life.
A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.
What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,-- The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?
?tatem non tegunt tempora=--Our temples do not conceal our age.
Old age hath yet his honor and his toil. Death closes all; but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with gods.
Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime.
You cannot escape from old age, whether it comes slowly or suddenly, but it comes unawares, and you suddenly feel that you cannot walk or jump as you used to do, and even the muscles of the mind don't hold out as they used. Well, so it was meant to be, and it will be pleasant to begin again with new muscles, and to take up new work. After seeing a good deal of life, I still think the greatest satisfaction is work: I do not mean drudgery, but one's own findings out.
The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.
A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they say, When the age is in the wit is out.
Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.
The temper of the pedagogue suits not with the age; and the world, however it may be taught, will not be tutored.
I, who have so much and so universally adored this ariston metron, "excellent mediocrity," of ancient times, and who have concluded the most moderate measure the most perfect, shall I pretend to an unreasonable and prodigious old age?
There was never found in any age of the world, either philosophy, or sect or religion, or law or discipline, which did so highly exalt the good of communion, and depress good private and particular, as the holy Christian faith: hence it clearly appears that it was one and the same God that gave the Christian law to men who gave those laws of nature to the creatures.--_Bacon._
Men no longer wholly believe; in this age of blindness and scientific pride, no one is any longer seen bowing before his god on both his knees.
L'age d'or etait l'age ou l'or ne regnait pas=--The golden age was the age in which gold did not reign.
I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full of the lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark upon your face,I will treasure you all the more, because I was there to see it all. I will share your life with you, Meredith, and I will love you until the last breath leaves your body or mine.
Optima qu?que dies miseris mortalibus ?vi / Prima fugit; subeunt morbi tristisque senectus, / Et labor; et dur? rapit inclementia mortis=--For wretched mortals each best day of life flies first; diseases soon steal on, and sad old age, and decay; and the cruelty of inexorable death snatches us away.
Cedat amor rebus; res age, tutus eris=--Let love give way to business; give attention to business, and you will be safe.
Excessit ex ephebis=--He has come to the age of manhood.
Novi ego hoc s?culum, moribus quibus siet=--I know this age, what its character is.
Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
When Augustus learnt that Herod's own son was among the children under the age of two years whom he had commanded to be slain, he said that it was better to be Herod's pig than his son. Macrob. _Saturn_. Lib. ii., c. 4.
There never was a literary age whose dominant taste was not sickly.
The age difference between us didn’t matter to me. Maybe I did have daddy issues.
The ivy, like the spider, takes hold with her hands in king's palaces, as every twig is furnished with innumerable little fingers, by which it draws itself close, as it were, to the very heart of the old rough stone. Its clinging and beautiful tenacity has given rise to an abundance of conceits about fidelity, friendship, and woman's love, which have become commonplace simply from their appropriateness. It might also symbolize the higher love, unconquerable and unconquered, which has embraced this ruined world from age to age, silently spreading its green over the rents and fissures of our fallen nature.--_Mrs. Stowe._
His hair just grizzled, As in a green old age.
His helmet now shall make a hive for bees, And lovers' songs be turned to holy psalms; A man-at-arms must now serve on his knees, And feed on prayers, which are old age's alms.
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into our old age, for old age brings with it its own defects.
The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn.
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. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woful ballad Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard; Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side; His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
The very staff of my age, my very prop.
Eident (diligent) youth makes easy age.
Youth beholds happiness gleaming in the prospect. Age looks back on the happiness of youth, and, instead of hopes, seeks its enjoyment in the recollection of hope.
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky.
Going the speed of light is bad for your age.
Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells.
Temeritas est florentis ?tatis, prudentia senescentis=--Rashness belongs to youth, prudence to old age.
My name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next age.--_Bacon._
Das Alter wagt, die Jugend wagt=--Age considers, youth ventures.
If you would understand an author, you must understand his age.
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
The German poet observes that the Cow of Isis is to some the divine symbol of knowledge, to others but the milch cow, only regarded for the pounds of butter she will yield. O tendency of our age, to look on Isis as the milch cow!--_Bulwer-Lytton._
Father of all! in every age, / In every clime adored, / By saint, by savage, and by sage, / Jehovah, Jove, or Lord.
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in manhood just, and in old age prudent.
Yet another curious consideration. Let us suppose that one of the stupid, salamander-like Labyrinthodonts, which pottered, with much belly and little leg, like Falstaff in his old age, among the coal-forests, could have had thinking power enough in his small brain to reflect upon the showers of spores which kept on falling through years and centuries, while perhaps not one in ten million fulfilled its apparent purpose, and reproduced the organism which gave it birth: surely he might have been excused for moralizing upon the thoughtless and wanton extravagance which Nature displayed in her operations.
We're living in a golden age. All you need is gold.
He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again.
There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and mirror it as it is. Such an one was Voltaire, of whom it was epigrammatically said, "he expressed everybody's thoughts better than anybody." But there are other men who attain greatness because they embody the potentiality of their own day and magically reflect the future. They express the thoughts which will be everybody's two or three centuries after them. Such an one was Descartes.
There are few sensations more pleasant than that of wondering. We have all experienced it in childhood, in youth, in manhood, and we may hope that even in our old age this affection of the mind will not entirely pass away. If we analyse this feeling of wonder carefully, we shall find that it consists of two elements. What we mean by wondering is not only that we are startled or stunned--that I should call the merely passive element of wonder. When we say 'I wonder' we confess that we are taken aback, but there is a secret satisfaction mixed up with our feeling of surprise, a kind of hope, nay, almost of certainty, that sooner or later the wonder will cease, that our senses or our mind will recover, will grapple with these novel expressions or experiences, grasp them, it may be, know them, and finally triumph over them. In fact we wonder at the riddles of nature, whether animate or inanimate, with a firm conviction that there is a solution to them all, even though we ourselves may not be able to find it. Wonder, no doubt, arises from ignorance, but from a peculiar kind of ignorance, from what might be called a fertile ignorance; an ignorance which, if we look back at the history of most of our sciences, will be found to have been the mother of all human knowledge.
Omnia fert ?tas, animum quoque=--Age carries all away, and the powers of the mind too.
Libidinosa et intemperans adolescentia eff?tum corpus tradit senectuti=--A sensual and intemperate youth transmits to old age a worn-out body.
Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Levity is a prettiness in a child, a disgraceful defect in men, and a monstrous folly in old age.
Disillusion is the chief characteristic of old age.
In our age of down-pulling and disbelief, the very devil has been pulled down; you cannot so much as believe in a devil.
As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye.
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty, and leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things.
_Canonical._--The heretical books in the early age of the Church serve to prove the canonical.
Senilis stultitia, qu? deliratio appellari solet, senum levium est, non omnium=--The foolishness of old age, which is termed dotage, does not characterise all who are old, but only those who are frivolous.
It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in,--glittering like the morning star full of life and splendour and joy. . . . Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men,--in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded.
Magis gaudet quam qui senectam exuit=--He rejoices more than an old man who has put off old age,
Aurea nunc vere sunt s?cula; plurimus auro / Venit honos: auro conciliatur amor=--The age we live in is the true age of gold; by gold men attain to the highest honour, and win even love itself.
Good birth is a great advantage, for it gives a man a chance at the age of eighteen, making him known and respected as an ordinary man is on his merits at fifty. Here are thirty years gained at a stroke.
The disappointment of manhood succeeds to the delusion of youth: let us hope that the heritage of old age is not despair.
Old age, though despised, is coveted by all.
Among the scientific instructions for the voyage* drawn up by a committee of the Royal Society, there is a remarkable letter from Von Humboldt to Lord Minto, then First Lord of the Admiralty, in which, among other things, he dwells upon the significance of the researches into the microscopic composition of rocks, and the discovery of the great share which microscopic organisms take in the formation of the crust of the earth at the present day, made by Ehrenberg in the years 1836-39. Ehrenberg, in fact, had shown that the extensive beds of "rotten-stone" or "Tripoli" which occur in various parts of the world, and notably at Bilin in Bohemia, consisted of accumulations of the silicious cases and skeletons of _Diatomaceæ_ sponges, and _Radiolaria_; he had proved that similar deposits were being formed by Diatomaceæ, in the pools of the Thiergarten in Berlin and elsewhere, and had pointed out that, if it were commercially worth while, rotten-stone might be manufactured by a process of diatom-culture. Observations conducted at Cuxhaven, in 1839, had revealed the existence, at the surface of the waters of the Baltic, of living Diatoms and _Radiolaria_ of the same species as those which, in a fossil state, constitute extensive rocks of tertiary age at Caltanisetta, Zante, and Oran, on the shores of the Mediterranean.
Reckoned by centuries, the remoteness of the quaternary, or pleistocene, age from our own is immense, and it is difficult to form an adequate notion of its duration. Undoubtedly there is an abysmal difference between the Neanderthaloid race and the comely living specimens of the blond long-heads with whom we are familiar. But the abyss of time between the period at which North Europe was first covered with ice, when savages pursued mammoths and scratched their portraits with sharp stones in central France, and the present day, ever widens as we learn more about the events which bridge it. And, if the differences between the Neanderthaloid men and ourselves could be divided into as many parts as that time contains centuries, the progress from part to part would probably be almost imperceptible.
For age, long age! / Nought else divides us from the fresh young days / Which men call ancient.
How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backwards to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.--_Colton._
What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!--To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion! To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity; to be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries!
Young men soon give, and soon forget affronts; old age is slow in both.
Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Law, man's sole guardian ever since the day when the old brazen age in sadness saw love fly the world.
There's too much of an attempt, it seems to me, to think in terms of controlling man, rather than freeing him. Of defining him rather than letting him go. It's part of the whole ideology of this age, which is power-mad.
The pyramids, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
The excesses of our youth are draughts upon our age, payable with interest about thirty years after date.
Christianity defines the highest conceivable future for mankind. It satisfies the Law of Continuity. It guarantees the necessary conditions for carrying on the organism successfully, from stage to stage. It provides against the tendency to Degeneration. And finally, instead of limiting the yearning hope of final perfection to the organisms of a future age--an age so remote that the hope for thousands of years must still be hopeless--instead of inflicting this cruelty on intelligences mature enough to know perfection and earnest enough to wish it, Christianity puts the prize within immediate reach of man. Natural Law, p. 404.
Redeunt Saturnia regna=--The golden age (_lit._ the reign of Saturn) is returning.
We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
Lo where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age.
Poets should turn philosophers in age, as Pope did. We are apt to grow chilly when we sit out our fire.
Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?
Jam redit et Virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna=--Now the Virgin goddess of justice returns; now the reign of Saturn and age of gold returns.
The wiser mind / Mourns less for what age takes away / Than what it leaves behind.
Das Alter der gottlichen Phantasie / Es ist verschwunden, es kehret nie=--The age of divine fantasy is gone, never to return.
No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, the usages, and the arts of his times shall have no share.
The golden age, that lovely prime, / Existed in the past no more than now. / And did it e'er exist, believe me, / As then it was, it now may be restored. Still meet congenial spirits, and enhance / Each other's pleasures in this beauteous world.
Youth no less becomes / The light and careless livery that it wears, / Than settled age his sables and his weeds, / Importing health and graveness.
We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.--_Joubert._
You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or right, but I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down — up to a man's age-old dream; the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order — or down to the ant heap totalitarianism, and regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.
Hoc age=--Mind what you are about (
Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing.
Jeune, et dans l'age heureux qui meconnait la crainte=--Young, and at that happy age which knows no fear.
I 'm weary of conjectures,--this must end 'em. Thus am I doubly armed: my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me: This in a moment brings me to an end; But this informs me I shall never die. The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point. The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years; But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.