The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
- Randall Jarrell
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
- Randall Jarrell
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
- Randall Jarrell
Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.
- Christopher Hitchens
Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?
- King Abdullah II
Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.
- Christopher Hitchens
Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?
- Desiderius Erasmus
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.
- J. B. Priestley
Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
- David Herbert Lawrence
In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
- Theodor Adorno
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.
- Doug Coupland