"The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age."

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"The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age."

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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Age, Belief, Disguise

"The golden age is before us, not behind us."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Age,

"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Age, Time, Teaching

"It is not well to make great changes in old age."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

Age, Old

"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

Age, Nature

"I am older than your age and younger than your body."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

Age, Aging, Paradox, Time, Youth

"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Age, Absurdity, May

"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Age, Old, Prudence, Youth

"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Age, Hesitation, Risk

"Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman Statesman

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"It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep."

Criticism

"I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns."

Earth

"Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself."

Talent

"Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth."

Politics

"The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost."

Past

"People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold."

People

"A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind."

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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

"The golden age is before us, not behind us."

"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

"It is not well to make great changes in old age."

"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

"I am older than your age and younger than your body."

"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

"Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders."

Explore more quotes by John Jay Chapman

"It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep."

"I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns."

"Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself."

"Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth."

"The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost."

"People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold."

"Too much agreement kills the chat."

"Politics is organized hatred, that is unity."

"The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought."

"A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind."