"We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age."

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"We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized 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

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

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

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Age, Man

"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

Explore more quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay

"That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy."

Government

"As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines."

Poetry

"Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."

People

"The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power."

Beauty

"Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind."

Poetry

"The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners."

Man

"Reform, that we may preserve."

Reform

"Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor."

Constitution

"And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?"

God

"A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in."

Progress