"Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age."

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"Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age."

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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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Explore more quotes by Sinclair Lewis

"Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country."

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"Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead."

Literature

"Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile."

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"Winter is not a season, it's an occupation."

Winter

"He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all."

Nothing

"What is love? It is the morning and the evening star."

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"The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century."

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"There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble."

Humor

"When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read."

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"Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form."

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