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

Age, Genius, Proof

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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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"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."

Andre Gide, French Novelist

Age, Honor, Middleage

"How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Age, Old

"The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age."

Compay Segundo, Cuban Musician

Age, Music, Play

"With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Age, Wisdom, Life, Time

"You can only be twice someone's age once."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Age, Truth, Life, Wisdom, Power

"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia."

George Orwell, British Author

Age, Politics, Folly, Hatred

"Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media."

Amitabh Bachchan, Indian Actor

Age, Work, Media

"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Age, Care, Importance

"It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Age, People, Catastrophes

"In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order."

Will Durant, American Historian

Age, Discovery, Freedom, Liberty

Explore more quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay

"Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world."

Man

"I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies."

Ambition

"The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators."

Pain

"Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action."

Action

"Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be."

History

"People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws."

Power

"A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot."

Constitution

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

Man

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

Poetry