"An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it."

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"An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it."

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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

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

"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

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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 James A. Michener

"It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid."

Courage

"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home."

Home

"I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions."

Love

"The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you."

Confidence

"For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find."

Man

"Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them."

Dream

"If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life."

Life

"I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself."

Army

"The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination."

Experience

"There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones."

Time