"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."

Age, Character, Man

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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

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

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

Age, Service

"Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off to raise hell or enlist or both, but we stayed dutifully at our desks doing tomorrow's homework."

John Knowles, American Novelist

Age, Boys, Hell, Tomorrow

"Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Age, Children, Jazz, Party

"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

"Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time."

Frederick Jackson Turner, American Historian

Age, History, Time, Past

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

Lie

"Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague."

Happiness

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

Relationship

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

Work

"Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty."

Authority

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

People

"Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends."

Friendship

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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.'"

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

"Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off to raise hell or enlist or both, but we stayed dutifully at our desks doing tomorrow's homework."

"Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders."

"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."

"Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time."

Explore more quotes by Norman Douglas

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

"Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague."

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

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

"Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty."

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

"Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends."

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

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

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