"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

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"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

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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

Age, Society, Money, Class

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

Victor Hugo, French Author

Age, Old, Youth

"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

Age, Impact, Success, Motivation

"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

Age, Technology

"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

Age, Love, Pleasure, Regret

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Age, Old, Years

"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

Age, Work, Old, Sorrow

"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

Age, Love, Man, Old

"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."

Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss Philosopher

Age, People, Old, Silly

"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

Age, Old, Pride

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"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising."

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"A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner."

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"To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two."

Friendship

"Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes."

Education

"There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide."

Society

"They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves."

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"The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day."

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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."

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

"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."

"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.'"

"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."

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

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

"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."

"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."

"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."

Explore more quotes by Norman Douglas

"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising."

"A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner."

"To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two."

"Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes."

"There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide."

"They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves."

"Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it."

"What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?"

"It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest."

"The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day."